How To Use Litany In A Sentence

He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol khans, Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
Most kitchen designers hear this litany of complaints at least once a week.
And just then began the ugliest man to gurgle and snort, as if something unutterable in him tried to find expression; when, however, he had actually found words, behold! it was a pious, strange litany in praise of the adored and censed ass. Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
the patient recited a litany of complaints

Bell sounds are messy and not for controlling, they also cause a litany of electronic effects such as phasing and digital delay without ever having gone through a patchbay.
But now everything she had once seen as colourful, lyrical, dramatic, even, was subsumed into a vast, unquenchable litany of light. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
In order to protect the guilty, Morin won't name names, which is probably just as well given the litany of scandalous events chronicled in the book.
Milton was swallowing, hook, line and sinker, a litany of Youth Earth Creationist arguments about geochronology—but without any religious motivation. An Ill Wind in Tortuca - The Panda's Thumb
This is more than just legal hair-splitting - this designation carries a litany of legal implications, from his ability to be interrogated to his rights at trial.
It was backbreaking, spirit-sucking work, and the book is a litany of the horticultural errors that can cripple a choice crop of kush.
It's a hefty task, seeing as each of her children is manoeuvring their way through a litany of oddball obsessions and neuroses.
In narratives by English writers from the time of Margery Kempe, the litany of discomfort, hazard, and mortal peril echoes almost unchangingly down the centuries, muting fainter sounds of pleasure.
I work in a different field of environmental science, ecotoxicology, but I find this continued litany of poor quality data archiving extraordinary. Did Jones et al 1990 "fabricate" its quality control claims? « Climate Audit
And as the shadows deepen I light my candles and abjure the cold evening by gripping the picture and mouthing a litany of His name.
She includes in her litany of blog dastardliness my argument that NPR is forbidding journalistic curiosity. Jeff Jarvis: NPR Blames Us for its Problems: Insane
Thanks to my dear mum my pantry and freezer is stocked with a litany of epicurean failures.
Of course we have just begun the litany from the Repubs on why this woman should not be seated as it was also a trying time for her immediate precedent. Obama aide defends Kagan over DADT, military recruiting
Among the litany of vampy costumes she didn't even understand were vampy because they're so the norm, she casually mentioned that one of the girls in her class was going to be a prostitute, and one of the boys would be going as her pimp. Joyce McFadden: How to Use Sexualized Halloween Costumes to Discuss the Power of Mothers and Daughters
His name emerged in a bubble rising out of the confusion, and with his name came a litany of his words: his compliments and his complaints, his warnings and his hopes. Music in The Night
It was the litany of fruity vowels and partisan plosives of the Russian language that inspired Musorgsky; likewise, Scriabin manipulated hemiolas and syncopes to mimic the rhythms of his native tongue.
The word litany comes from the Latin litania, from the Greek λιτή litê, meaning "prayer" or "supplication".... The Great Litany
There is a whole litany of character traits like this in all of us.
Part of their litany is a desire to avoid coming face to face with academics or scientists who are specialists in their subject and might be able to debunk their prejudices. An empty chair for Monbiot
Because that's another one of these litany -- what I call the litany of lies. CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2003
In 1989, I walked into a church near Boris Pasternak's dacha and heard priests and babushkas reciting the litany with perfect recall as if seventy-two years of repression had never happened.
The ensuing litany of botched deals, double-crosses and macho showdownery is complicated and, ultimately, exhausting.
They exchanged the litany of technical gen and letters from home and awaited their baptism. Bomber
It's a hefty task, seeing as each of her children is manoeuvring their way through a litany of oddball obsessions and neuroses.
Here he might live a strange litany, delivered from right and wrong and from the hound of heaven and from every God (except the exotic Mexican one who was pretty slack himself and rather addicted to Oriental scents) delivered from success and hope and poverty into that long chute of indulgence which led, after all, only to the artificial lake of death. Book 2, Chapter 5. The Egotist Becomes a Personage.
While some have taken Korean classes and have done quite well, others have plodded along getting by with a litany of stock phrases and vocabulary.
They think their other advantages - franked mail, automatic access to local news outlets, a litany of local pork projects, government funded constituent services, and gerrymandered districts - will protect them. Rick Sloan: Incumbents Better Take Note
* For the information of Protestant and other non-Catholic readers it may be mentioned that all the titles enumerated in this passage are taken from the Litany of the Blessed Virgin. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
To add to the usual litany of woes that go with ageing, he's had a quintuple heart bypass.
The litany of daily miseries suffered by the powerless public of the subcontinent on both sides of the border should make us ask, why?
The families and friends of those killed have responded bitterly to the litany of obfuscations and half-truths.
After the Tsar recited the Nicene Creed as a profession of faith, and after an invocation of the Holy Ghost and a litany, the emperor assumed the purple chlamys, and the crown was then presented to him. Imperial Crown of Russia
It's gonna really suck for the other Dems in this race when Roy Barnes trots out his litany of successes that have directly impacted Georgians. The Sounds of Ka-Ching coming from the Barnes HQ (Blog for Democracy)
Every bungle is followed by the same sorry litany. Think Progress » In Katrina’s Wake, Administration Requests More Money For Iraqi Reconstruction
In a psalter the Psalms are often preceded by a calendar and contain ancillary texts such as canticles, creeds, a litany of saints, and other individual prayers, hymns, and occasionally even the hours of the Virgin.
We keep hearing the same tired old litany that resources are scarce, and there is never enough money to fund pressing socio-economic priorities.
I was unimpressed by the litany of self - destruction, violence and gratuitous sexism.
Once he and Juicks were seated, I went through the entire litany once more. THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
In your testimony today, right here, right now, you continue to deflect personal responsibility, you cite what you call a litany of reasons for Lehman's bankruptcy. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008
From these Dada-like beginnings he developed a litany of Fookianisms which spilt delightfully over into happenings, art objects, bureaucracy and erotica.
For twenty minutes my hostess listed the now familiar litany of complaints.
It's complex because you're talking about bits and bytes of software, radio frequencies, protocols and a litany of technical items.
It would have been easy, however, for them to dump out a litany of complaints and call it a day.
The litany continues for well over three hundred pages, but there is little point in following it further.
It conjures up a middle-class urban Indian world with precise and loving evocations of place and setting - complete with a litany of untranslated Bengali words - and this it does extremely well.
A similar litany of complaints might have come from any United follower in the street, which is why fan endorsement has been nearly unanimous.
The Litany was regarded by Knox as rather of the nature of magic than of prayer, the surplice was a Romish rag, and there was some other objection to the congregation's taking part in the prayers by responses, though they were not forbidden to mingle their voices in psalmody. John Knox and the Reformation
Any pretence that England were unfortunate victims of circumstance in New Zealand has been blown out of the water and replaced by a litany of examples of avarice and muddle-headed thinking. Damning reports expose something rotten at heart of England rugby | Robert Kitson
Thanks to my dear mum (often referred to as Yeah-Smother instead of Yes, Mother) my pantry and freezer is stocked with a litany of epicurean failures.
This explains the litany of septuncial lettertrumpets honorific, highpitched, erudite, neoclassical, which he so loved as patricianly to manuscribe after his name. Finnegans Wake
After all, one need openly contemplate the sad litany of child superstars who were broken on the wheel of early success to predict Declan's likely fate.
His Columbia University office was ransacked and he was subject to a seemingly endless litany of lies about his character.
Back-forming by removing prefixes is less common, except in humorous contexts such as Jack Winter’s “How I met my wife”, which boasts a litany of deliberately malformed terms like chalant, ept, and peccable. Back-forming back-formations
June 8th, 2009 3: 38pm it used to be called racialism till the socialists got in. like veterans used to be called ex-servicemen and women. like a loss used to be called a defeat. like a train station used to be called a railway station. you missed from the litany of racialist offences making a complaint to the planning authorities when a gang of car thieves plant their caravans and dogs in a lovely paddock near your house where parking or development are absolutely forbidden. and how many Tory or Lib Dem councillors will dare then to stand up for their anguished constituents in this situation? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Rarely have the compositional anxieties of the Scherzo sounded more robust and urgent, or its litany of compulsive surges so compelling.
So out went audible responses, the minister's surplice and the litany.
Elegy or litany, epicede or epithalamium, his work is always a song-writer's; nothing more, but nothing less, than the work of the greatest song-writer -- as surely as The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
Layouts that do not have an underground drainage system, and are denied prompt garbage clearance because they are unapproved, have a litany of woes.
The litany of contemporary change includes global warming, ozone loss, soil erosion, deforestation, desertification, collapsing fisheries, and disappearing aquifers.
For a moment during this litany, her tone of voice takes on a sharp, exasperated edge.
He had even described his short public life as a ‘long litany of failures ‘and ‘heartfelt personal grouses.’
The self's figuration as a trajectory that collapses or can't move ahead finds its formal parallel in Jarnot's insistent, incessant use of repetition, anaphora, litany, and incantation.
“Back-forming by removing prefixes is less common, except in humorous contexts such as Jack Winter’s “How I met my wife”, which boasts a litany of deliberately malformed terms like chalant, ept, and peccable.” Back-forming back-formations
{54} The Litany was regarded by Knox as rather of the nature of magic than of prayer, the surplice was a Romish rag, and there was some other objection to the congregation's taking part in the prayers by responses, though they were not forbidden to mingle their voices in psalmody. John Knox and the Reformation
A friend who is simply willing to listen to someone's litany of woes may save a life.
A continued litany from speeches in the House to churches in their districts aroused the inner-city residents to come to the aid of a country founded by slaves.
He's forced to watch a videotape of her reading off a litany of complaints about their dysfunctional marriage.
About the same time the primers were revised, and the King's Primer issued in 1545 in the interest of uniformity; it included the English Litany.
All of these can an otherwise reputation a litany of faux pas in of your coworkers.
Nothing is more depressing than a never-ending litany of vandalism, muggings and burglaries.
As he recites this depressing litany, there is steel in his voice.
The vitae often refer to the nuns attending Mass and offices, sitting in their choirstalls and singing the liturgy, or like Irmgart of Kirchberg, reciting the litany of saints. 66 The many mystical and visionary experiences that occurred within that monastic space were often marked by noting the psalm, antiphon, or sequence that the women were singing at the exact moment of experience or revelation. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
They exchanged the litany of technical gen and letters from home and awaited their baptism. Bomber
He responded with a litany of places been and people seen and red carpets perambulated, of yachts boarded and eminent names placed next to him at fancy dinners. Resurrected by the Wrath of Liz Smith
You know the litany: sexism, racism, colonialism, homophobia.
She went back and put her ear against it, hearing Ellel's voice rising and falling, like a chant, like a litany. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
So out went audible responses, the minister's surplice and the litany.
I've developed a little litany of Obama-isms ~ "unh, mmmm, nghnm, nork, dork" ~ that he goes into when asked to say something for which he does not have an already prepared text ready to go. Latest Articles
He recited a litany of the fruit there, including mangoes, papayas, sweetsops, cherries and coconuts.
Professor Jones recites the grim litany of human tragedies that have plagued our planet over the last 100 years.
Sorry, but I don't have any more time to address your litany of other complaints.
There is also a brief homily on the saints and the universal call to holiness, night prayer, and a candlelight procession to the cloister's reliquary while chanting the Litany of the Saints.
In his diatribe against the companies, which he described as funded by the American government, he said they were responsible for a litany of bloody crimes against the Afghan people. NYT > Home Page
a litany of failures
The new online political journal The Politico reports: "Kerry, Casey Benefit From Indicted Philly Pol's Favors" A powerful Philadelphia politician charged with a litany of federal corruption offenses is accused of illegally using state government resources to help his political allies, including Democratic Sens. Sound Politics: Culture of Corruption
When pressed for some favorite locations, Murdoch begins a long litany that is both incredibly informed and casually extemporaneous.
When the Litany is sung or said immediately before the Eucharist, the Litany concludes here, and the Eucharist begins with the Salutation and the Collect of the Day.
He led the litany with, ‘Christians, avaunt! ‘and the crowd responded, ‘Epicureans, avaunt!’
It's riveting and intense, with just enough action to satisfy those who enjoy that genre and enough substance to satiate viewers who are tired of the long litany of dumb motion pictures marching through multiplexes.
Early chapters review the usual tiresome litany of depressing problems caused by traditional approaches to building and other human endeavors.
Oh yes, I trotted out the whole litany of familiar negatives.
The gizmo had no sense of how long each step might take, and continued its litany of orders while the user would likely still be occupied with a previous task.
An amateur psychologist might study the litany of denial, and diagnose self-loathing in the need to dispute so much of her own biography.
So it's not for nothing that in the Litany of St. Joseph the last title recited is Protector of the Church. The Register's Daily Blog
When the King had thus offered his oblation, he went to his chair set for him on the south side of the altar, and knelt at his faldstool, and the Litany commenced, which was read by two bishops, vested in copes, and kneeling at a faldstool above the steps of the theatre, on the middle of the east side; the choir read the responses. Coronation Anecdotes
This was initiated by the singing of Veni, Creator and the Litany, and the saying of several long prayers.
And this litany of lies he will versify with reverences for God and the flag and democracy, when just what he and his party are doing to our democracy is choking the life out of it. Think Progress » Strategy Memo: How the Right Plans to Sink the Anti-Torture Amendment Behind Closed Doors
Sympathetically, they sang to him penitential psalms, particularly the Miserere, and the Litany of Loreto, while he gazed at a panel from their diverse collection of tavolette.
And while she had a bubbly charm, she also became defined as ditzy, thanks to a litany of memorable, Jessica Simpson-like gaffes. Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
In 1545 he wrote a litany that is still used in the church.
Once again, Arnold made his well-worn case - not an argument, really, just a litany of unprovable assertions.
Litany; and Wednesday evening lectures are to her what excursions for ice-cream or soda-water are to "unregenerate" girls. The end of an era,
She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client.
‘The history of professional planning is a litany of failure,’ says Andres Duany, one of the godfathers of the movement.
Nothing is more depressing than a never-ending litany of vandalism, muggings and burglaries.
He is almost unconscious of this recurring litany because he not only believes it - he feels it.
The bishop and his men went once, twice, thrice around it, chanting all the while the litany of Christ, of Mary Ever-Virgin, the angels, apostles, glorious martyrs, confessors, and virgins sacred to God.
You cite what you call a litany of reasons for Lehmans 'bankruptcy. CNN Transcript Oct 6, 2008
Towards two o'clock in the afternoon the Pope and the palatine clergy moved in procession barefoot from the Lateran to the stational basilica, where the Adoration of the Cross took place, followed by the reading of the Passion according to St John, and the Great Litany for the various ecclesiastical orders and for the necessities of the Church. She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians!
I mean, Halliburton, we found out a couple of weeks ago, so much of their money in offshore companies, a virtual litany of places to hide your money is where they have their money in Liechtenstein, and Panama and the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas and a place called Vanuatu which I have never even heard of. CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2004
The first part of the Orthros, or midnight office, consists of twelve prayers, the greater litany, two stichera followed by Psalms 134 and 135, a third sticheron followed by the gradual psalms, an antiphon with the prokeimenon, the reading of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Them he branded, as hypocritical materialists, and the country for pride in her sweetmeat plethora of them: -- mixed with an ancient Hebrew fear of offence to an inscrutable Lord, eccentrically appeasable through the dreary iteration of the litany of sinfulness. One of Our Conquerors — Volume 3
The deacon unwinds his orarion, goes back to the choir before the ikonostasis, and says a short litany again with the choir. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
He offered a litany of what he called "downloadable" models: NYT > Home Page
William Hone was acquitted in three famous trials after having parodied the litany, the Athanasian Creed, and the church catechism.
Via Crucis and Litany of the Saints in the Streets ... Ambos, or Ambones
Ugh, I just can't bear to sit through a litany of her illnesses and complaints and all of that right now.
I don't want to hear your litany of complaints.
But the litany of complaints from Government officials cannot be taken up by anyone other than themselves.
WASHINGTON — A litany of half-truths, withholding crucial video, blocking media access to the site and a failure to share timely and complete information about efforts to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history have created the widespread impression that BP is withholding information about the April 20 oilrig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, if not misleading the public and the government. Oil Spill Taking Toll On BP's, Government's Credibility
Danovin strode in with a pinched expression, and sighed as he leaned against the door, shooting into a sharp and speedy litany that made Visbec chuckle.
The unrealisable utopian welfare project resulted in nothing less than a collapse of all the values that had made the British so admirable, as he catalogues in this devastating litany.
And some of the least reliable escalators in the system are also some of the newest, accumulating thousands of hours out of service for what officials described as a litany of mechanical flaws. Disabled people blocked from NY subway access with constant elevator breakdowns
I no longer have time for your garbled emails, and now your litany of lies.
But for Mr. Gall and his Facebook followers, the endless litany of bad economic news just isn't going to help them navigate the murky waters ahead.
If Darian could not get away from whoever had decided to deliver the usual lecture, the haranguer would then go through the litany of Darian's many character flaws and deficiencies, and the only variation was in how much emphasis an individual placed on a particular flaw. Owlflight
That is to say, the book is a litany of facts, quotations, observations, anecdotes, recollections, fragments of poetry, and self-reflexive commentary.
Well, not exactly -- but that ancient litany of 282 laws, inscribed on diorite some 3,700 years ago, did enjoin the master craftsmen of Babylon to pass on their trade and treat their apprentices fairly. Lapham's Quarterly: Of Apprentices and Interns
A litany of lies he will versify with reverences for God and the flag and democracy, when just what he and his party are doing to our democracy is choking the life out of it. E. L. Doctorow: "I fault this President for not knowing what death is"
One of his comments there pungently countered the litany from credulous believers that you must always keep an open mind.

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