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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A ‘clarion call’ is an urgent appeal, frequently used in a religious context. Googling the possible eggcorn ‘carrion call’ yields 262 unique hits, many of them deliberate wordplay but others do appear accidental. I suspect it may be no more than a malapropism but the alternative imagery seems quite potent: poor Vincent for example, with brush and gun in hand before all that waving wheat and the noisy crows circling overhead…
Let’s hope it somehow serves as a carrion call for change or at least to take a more serious interest in what’s going on. ...
moviesprites-cafe.blogspot.com/2007/01/conscientious-rejector.html – 18k – Cached
... all sides…but until the major players have the sense to call upon an independent mediator & reject the carrion call of the ‘opportunists’ & ‘money comes …
antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2006/07/26/so-much-anti-semitism-what-can-we-do/ – 106k – Cached
And we have so worried ourselves about issues of timing because we have sought to avoid the clear carrion call to transform the world right here and right …
www.thirdpresbyterian.org/worship/2004_ … rmon.shtml – 29k – Cached
An anchor of discipline, soundly attentive A deposit of fruitfulness, fated for bounty The reservoir deep of insatiable glory The carrion call of worldly …
www.faithwriters.com/wc-article-level3- … hp?id=5725 – 19k – Cached
There will be definitely be many barriers in cross-cultural communication but the new world carrion call is for clearer understanding and friendship among …
www.sgwiki.com/wiki/Contextualization – 25k – Cached
Yeah blindly, bopping along, to the beat of, a mock pop song, waiting for, the curtain to fall, or delaying the, carrion call? Wake up, it’s time . ...
blog.myspace.com/blog/rss.cfm?friendID=99944658 – 14k – Cached
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