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    litany


    1. His sing-song voice kept up a constant litany of


    2. And so much more: a half-forgotten litany of wrong-doings, of frustrations at his own inactions


    3. She figured that it was a hard enough world out there as it was and that everyone needed somewhere they could go and not be on their guard, including the teachers, this was her litany


    4. The litany of abuses predicated in the name of free expression, or proxy ―decisions‖ made on behalf of others who are unable to make informed decisions, are understood by the hordes of mentally ill people roaming the streets, who should be otherwise institutionalized for their own safety, if not for the safety of our society, for that matter, who remain on the streets, unable to properly care for themselves, mandated by civil rights organizations fearful that their rights may be jeopardized, people otherwise incapable of making a rational assessment of their own condition; not to mention conferring legitimacy to sexual deviancy in all its varieties that many of us have casually resigned ourselves to as ―simply‖ alternative lifestyles or championing (equal) protection under the law, that, in some instances, should call for censorship, or implausible assumptions regarding the ―unborn,‖ (Abortion) remanding millions of innocents to an early grave, a convenience for women fretting over their figures or professional careers, abetted by spineless politicians, who for expediency sake, continue advancing legislation denying them (―unborn‖) their own inalienable right to choose, had they the means, or encouraging a culture of death (Euthanasia) for the convenience of (the) would-be custodians of the terminally ill or perhaps to (simply) reduce the increasing costs of Healthcare, or the legalization of drugs because that too is a convenient alternative for a number of individuals who have seemingly lost the will to rid our society of rampant drug abuse and therefore justify such (hare-brained) schemes from the vantage point of opportunity savings or reduced social costs, or movements to eliminate God from the public consciousness lest society be reminded of its sins or perhaps because many of us have (conveniently) chosen to become our own gods


    5. A litany of encrypted chanting was intoned by Crowley, and Hillenbrand was again


    6. Without interrupting his unconscious litany, Uncle Hobart grabbed the gear-stick and slammed the car into reverse gear


    7. When he thought of Pop, sitting there hour after hour, day after day, watching the Cable News, with its litany of death and disaster, its obsession with terrorism, work-place and high school shootings; he guessed no one was immune from the paranoia


    8. Howard-Smythe was sorting though a litany of items that needed to be taken care of


    9. For the price of a few beers and a couple of hours of drinking, they were treated to a litany of the sailor’s exploits in addition to learning that they were members of the relief crew which would take over on the following Tuesday – the tenth!


    10. Her pupils were programmed to chant these and other exercises like a litany the instant she barked the signal: the first word of a series

    11. Except with “the Litany,” we had ten years


    12. Orb now had knowledge of Jason’s influence if not signature on most of the displays that referred to “The Litany


    13. 9 their litany so earnest went up to Heaven


    14. Soros includes among his litany of disaffection for America the idea that the war on terror is a “false metaphor”


    15. Some analysts and commentators spread a litany of anti Yankee “buts”, sharpened slashes against the assaulted country and consoling and even cheering hand-clapping for the executors of such atrocity


    16. How different it had all been from the litany of possibilities his limited experience could have conjured up


    17. How different it had all been from the litany of possibilities


    18. The NLUS has given its annual award to a litany of military luminaries who have exemplified “the highest standards of the United States and the Navy League


    19. A possible solution to this litany of problems is to have all drug and device clinical


    20. Then raised the arms and began to recite it with the monotonous tone of a litany

    21. Greg foolishly defended his mother, causing Susan to fire off a litany of grievances that ended with Greg telling her to shut the fuck up or he’d knock her lights out


    22. THE LITANY OF THE SAINTS


    23. After the Rosary or on special occasions the litany may be said


    24. your termination,” Hugh said as he began his litany


    25. whose biography is a litany of irresponsibility and grievance about his


    26. cursed his fat stupid belly, his lazy uncut arms, a litany of swearing as form to the


    27. The “Y” intercept or “alpha” component has a litany of its own


    28. But Schnottweiper waved away this litany of questions


    29. He resumed his litany


    30. She suspected that human history, with its litany of wars and atrocities, could very well repulse the Koorivars and make them suspicious of her intents, or make them squarely hostile

    31. I always thank God that our time-honoured Prayer Book contains such a grand specimen of intercession as the Litany


    32. litany of one night stands until then, I was suddenly confronted with the rather


    33. 1994 and a litany of new legislation had


    34. She tilted her head upwards as she chanted incoherently, and then ended her litany


    35. She'll never want to see me again," he sourly noted as he listened to the litany within the room begin to rise in tempo


    36. But in deference to unknown forces that seemed to be playing her like a chess piece, she gave in to the logic that keeping tabs on the countdown, by watching CNN’s ongoing litany of bad and sad tidings on a regular basis, would give her ample warning to do something or other


    37. 8 For a litany of the U


    38. He raised his cross in two hands and began his litany in clear, slow tones


    39. litany (long prayer consisting of a series ofinvocations and responses


    40. For she had acquired a habit, due to much repetition of the Litany, of regarding widowers as brittle, needing special care

    41. They came, she knew, in the Prayer-book somewhere; was it in the Litany? No; but anyhow they were in that truthful book, the Book of Common Prayer, and they were--yes, that was it: _The great danger of child-birth


    42. "But isn't Kipling--why, till I married I had only the Litany


    43. I felt very _empty_ on the Litany


    44. This was just the latest in a litany of stunts her mom was known to pull


    45. Alexandra went through a litany of reasons why he had not telephoned her


    46. Somewhere in the back of Sara’s mind, as she listens to the litany of injuries – major blood loss, a broken leg, several cracked ribs, almost certainly internal bleeding and all that just for starters – she wonders if the policeman has any idea that she’s seventeen years old and a volunteer on her very first ever ambulance run and utterly clueless


    47. there has always been a long litany of unsung Irish exiled


    48. and their own people is a litany of puking disgusting meanness and nastiness that will make you want to vomit


    49. Every scientist has an entire litany of assumptions and beliefs and myths in their sick souls about Nature and wild animals


    50. They are nothing more than a litany of rising and falling Empires


































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    "litany" definitions

    any long and tedious address or recital


    a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation