Thus environmental history, like environmentalism, is perceived as entrenched pessimism, a litany of degeneration, failure, loss, decline and decay – a progressive downward spiral leading inexorably to global catastrophe, a kind of environmental eschatology – often portrayed as proceeding from some halcyon golden age of the past.

It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

then she murmured: `` You're very kind, Mr. Morgan.

`` You're awfully kind '', the girl said.

He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.

Help me up, I feel kind of stiff ''.

It's not the kind of thing that a man would be proud of.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

`` He's having some kind of a fit ''.

In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.

You're the kind of bastard who sneaks up on a man from behind and hits him with a club.

Even strange names seemed to make them feel closer to some kind of civilization when stumbled across out here in this wilderness.

Sulphur, oil, and copra make the kind of tinder any firebug dreams of.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

He wore no head cover of any kind and, more odd, had no visible weapon.

`` That critter will be back tomorrow '', predicted George Rust, `` and he'll bring fifty of his kind back with him.

Once inside the luxuriosly-upholstered landau, she drew the curtains and proceeded to give the startled youth the kind of physical examination usually reserved for army inductees.

I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.

It was a difficult and ambiguous kind of negotiation, even though the rancher was said to be expert in his knowledge of the aborigines and their language.

They think of it as a kind of spooky museum in which they may half see and half imagine the old splendor.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.

Our inability to explain why certain people are fond of us frequently induces the same kind of ritual and malaise.

Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

Diarmaid MacCulloch describes the new act of worship as, " a morning marathon of prayer, scripture reading, and praise, consisting of mattins, litany, and ante-communion, preferably as the matrix for a sermon to proclaim the message of scripture anew week by week.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

Within that part, the chapter on Viaticum is followed by two more chapters, one on Commendation of the Dying, with short texts, mainly from the Bible, a special form of the litany of the saints, and other prayers, and the other on Prayers for the Dead.

The common area of performance is found in a " social phenomenon called litany ," a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications.

The indictment accused Milken of a litany of misconduct, including insider trading, stock parking ( concealing the real owner of a stock ), tax evasion and numerous instances of repayment of illicit profits.

The Agnus Dei would have been chanted in both Greek and Latin during this period, in the same manner as the other liturgical changes of Sergius I. Sergius I himself composed a litany in Greek ( extant in the Athelstan Psalter to be recited on the feast of all saints.

Recognizing St. Spyridon's role in the defence of the island Venice legislated the establishment of the litany ( λιτανεία ) of St Spyridon on 11 August as a commemoration of the miraculous event, inaugurating a tradition that continues to this day.

The deacon also carries a special Paschal candle which is a single large candle whenever he leads an ektenia ( litany ) or censes.

The sign of peace is exchanged and then the " Lamb of God " (" Agnus Dei " in Latin ) litany is sung or recited, while the priest breaks the host and places a piece in the main chalice ; this is known as the rite of fraction and commingling.

The litany of Guyana's decline included shortages of rice and sugar ( both produced in the country ), cooking oil, and kerosene.

As she moves though the litany of reasons why a woman should obey her husband, she faces the camera and winks toward Bianca ( Dorothea Jordan ), unseen by Petruchio.

After an ektenia ( litany ), during which petitions are offered that God will have mercy on those who err and bring them back to the truth, and that he will " make hatred, enmity, strife, vengeance, falsehood and all other abominations to cease, and cause true love to reign in our hearts …", the bishop ( or abbot ) says a prayer during which he beseeches God to: " look down now upon Thy Church, and behold how that, though we have joyously received the Gospel of salvation, we are but stony ground.

His Trifles for a Massacre, is an endless litany critical of Jews and their influence on French society.

In one litany Ishkur is proclaimed again and again as " great radiant bull, your name is heaven " and also called son of An, lord of Karkara ; twin-brother of Enki, lord of abundance, lord who rides the storm, lion of heaven.

The common area of performance is found in a " social phenomenon called litany ," a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications.

But it is also the period that saw the composing of the litany against fear and the assembly of the Azhar Book, that bibliographic marvel that preserves the great secrets of the most ancient faiths.

The litany is shortened in David Lynch's 1984 film.

Part III, in relation to Parts I, II, and IV is " a litany of affirmation of the Lamb in its glory ," according to Ginsberg.

The litany was sung – per the Catholic tradition – rather than spoken as was normally done by the Calvinists.

In response to his critics, he posted a 6, 500-word essay on National Review Online, and NRO subsequently published a litany of responses from conservative authors who accused D ' Souza of character assassination, elitism and pseudo-intellectualism.

After the cantors chant hymns pertaining to the feast, the deacon or priest will read a litany with several long peititions, to which the cantors respond with Kyrie eleison (" Lord, Have Mercy ") many times.