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Many images are ambiguous, presumably deliberately, and can be read as the Virgin either feeling faint, or simply stricken with grief. One major work to depict the Swoon is The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden ( Prado , c. 1435), in which the body of the Virgin, with eyes closed, is parallel to that of her son just above.
The fainting "spell" was orchestrated by Abel, who later said that Phil Donahue enjoyed high ratings after the incident and sent Abel a Christmas card with the message, "Hope nothing causes you to feel faint in the next year." [5]
People slain in the Spirit after receiving prayer from faith healer and Catholic priest Fernando Suarez. Slain in the Spirit or slaying in the Spirit are terms used by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians to describe a form of prostration in which an individual falls to the floor while experiencing religious ecstasy.
Lightheadedness is a common and typically unpleasant sensation of dizziness [1] or a feeling that one may faint. The sensation of lightheadedness can be short-lived, prolonged, or, rarely, recurring. In addition to dizziness, the individual may feel as though their head is weightless.
Though abandoned by modern scholars as a fringe theory, the hypothesis has remained popular in various works of pseudohistory, such as Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln's 1982 book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Barbara Thiering's 1992 Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Michael Baigent's 2006 The Jesus Papers.
"I'm not going anywhere. I'm not kidding. "People of South Carolina: Thank you for keeping the faith. It's been the honor of my life to serve as your president." ... But faint not.” ...
Damning with faint praise is an English idiom, expressing oxymoronically that half-hearted or insincere praise may act as oblique criticism or condemnation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In simpler terms, praise is given, but only given as high as mediocrity, which may be interpreted as passive-aggressive .
The added mystery seems to captivate people’s minds even more, sometimes even years or decades after the terrible events take 30 Baffling Unsolved True Crime Cases That Are Not For The Faint-Hearted