What is "pronouncement"

Usage examples of "pronouncement".

Contrast its restrained tone with, say, the products of modern advertising, political speeches, authoritative theological pronouncements - or for that matter the blurb on the cover of this book.

Livia replied that she could not have expressed an opinion had not the Goddess fortunately made a pronouncement on this point in the same dream: that the Mother Confessor would be empowered to prescribe expiatory penances and that the penances should be a matter of holy confidence between the criminal and the Mother Confessor.

I question the legality of anything beyond what has already been donea pronouncement by the College of Pontifices that Publius Clodius did commit sacrilege.

This address was one of the most sturdy pronouncements of protectionist opinion which the discussions of the day brought forth.

Ray Scutter would have made an interesting subject, Chris thought, but he was supposed to be hard to approach, and his public pronouncements were so predictably banal that better journalists than Chris had written him off as a lost cause.

Although these approaches utterly lack any depth, they make up for that in a type of fearless shallowness, the same fearless shallowness that marks the exuberance of Descenders everywhere, that confers great confidence on their reductive pronouncements and makes happy the hand of Thanatos that they so freely wave.

It was a not unbewitching sound, a mix of flute and bassoon, my consonants slightly slurred, a rush and breathiness to most of my pronouncements.

Nor must it be forgotten that sermons, like plays, are addressed to a mixed audience of families, and that the spiritual teachings of a lifetime may be destroyed by ten minutes of uncensored pronouncement from a pulpit, the while parents are sitting, not, as in a theatre vested with the right of protest, but dumb and excoriated to the soul, watching their children, perhaps of tender age, eagerly drinking in words at variance with that which they themselves have been at such pains to instil.

But then something unexpected: one of the Afridi, apparently with a rush of insight, shouted at the others, his pronouncement accompanied by a loud guffaw.

Everyone in line knew what it was, and even though neither of the two previous angels had done more than make their pronouncements, it was an awesome and unnerving sight, and many left their place in line to seek cover.

They should pay attention to the pronouncements of presidents and general secretaries and all the multichanneled pundits.

Sometimes her pronouncements have an eerie sibylline quality, as though she prophesied a future that had no past.

Nowadays these people wait with bearded lips agape for my tritest pronouncement, and listen, more avidly than any other congregation I have ever known, to my most recondite sermons.

The book is, I believe, in harmony with the mood of the public at large in the world today, a mood which no longer unquestioningly accepts the pronouncements of established authorities, and is willing to listen with an open mind to heretics who make their case reasonably and rationally.

I venture to think that His Excellency by his pronouncement on the Punjab has strengthened the nation in its efforts to seek a remedy to compel redress of the two wrongs before it can make anything of the so-called Reforms.