How To Use noonday In A Sentence
- As was customary for the Sangha they broke for lunch to collect alms for the noonday meal, the King wondering where his son was, travelled by gharry down to the central marketplace. Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2
- R. R. Reno's connection of an overblown fear of suffering with acedia or spiritual apathy in ‘Fighting the Noonday Devil’ (August / September) gave me an ‘aha!’
- Since the word for "noonday" comes from this root, the meaning "an opening for light" (Lichtoeffnung) is the more appropriate, not roof. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
- Simple boredom is the sort you suffer from during long Christmas dinners or political speeches; "existential" boredom is more complex and persistent, taking in many conditions, such as melancholia, depression, world weariness and what the psalmist called the "destruction that wasteth at noonday"—or spiritual despair, often referred to as acedia or accidie. Accidie? Ennui? Sigh . . .
- The bar was dark with shadow despite the noonday sun that blazed on shuttered windows.
- They walked in the blazing noonday sun with a new purposeful stride.
- But it is not the accusation that admits of defence, the arrow that flies at noonday, that is most to be feared. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
- There, however, the tartana and the guide were ready; so, after taking a noonday’s repast with my fellow traveller at the posada, I set out with him on our journey. The Alhambra
- If McKibben highlights pride and avarice, R. R. Reno contends that the most corrosive vice of our age is sloth, spiritual apathy, what the monks called ‘the noonday devil’ of acedia.
- He sat at one of the outside tables taking in the heat of the noonday sun.