Sentences with canon
can·yon
C c - He had to read a canon of accepted literary texts. [+ of]
- The very first canon of nursing is to keep the air inside as fresh as the air outside.
- When you read passages attributed to Satan in the Gospels for example, and you read passages attributed to Mara in the Buddhist canon, you suddenly hear this same voice.
- We do not, therefore, believe that the Church can now be an organ of revelation, since the canon of Scripture has been completed.
- The canons of good taste
- The Victorian canon
- No mention is made of the revision, which allowed the story to join the Simple canon, including publication in The Best of Simple.
- To create a canon of sacred writings is to create a collection which will be in some sense normative for the community for which it is intended.
- The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.
- The entire Shakespeare canon
- It is possible that Walker, trained in the traditional canon at Sarah Lawrence, may be directly alluding to Shelley's line.
- She is being made an honorary canon in recognition of her hospital work and will take over as rural dean of South Craven in February.
- We must proceed according to canon law.
- Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.
- The plans are being led by the church's vicar, Canon Derek Jackson, a former canon pastor of Bradford Cathedral.
- His legacy to the literary canon is his portrayal of the people, language and customs of the English countryside in his novels.
- A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.
- A canon of beef or lamb
- When he returned to his native land, Copernicus was again granted leave from his official duties as a canon in the Ermland Chapter at Frauenburg.
- I simply do not believe in the validity of the concept of a canon, and for that reason I consider the important writers of the past not as models, but as challenges.
- Do you think many of them are being absorbed into the Western canon, or is the canon being changed to accommodate them?
- Degree in hand, he returned home to Warmia, to serve as canon of the Cathedral Chapter of Frombork.
- Later a canon at Westminster, he became a publicist for the North-West Passage idea and other projects, and adviser to the new East India Company in 1600.
- A loose analogy with T. S. Eliot's notion of how a new classic affects the canon of a literature might be drawn here.
- After 15 years, he returned as parish priest to Beverley, during which time he was made a canon of the cathedral chapter in 1982.
- This one is as neat a demonstration of the Arthurian cycle as any book in the Clarke canon, and as stimulating.
- He is funny, dignified and minutely knowledgeable about the whole Christie canon, having dramatised all the Poirots and all the Radio 4 Miss Marples with June Whitfield.
- The Praeludium for Paul Hindemith uses a canon composed by Hindemith on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday in December 1960.