The part of a Methodist meeting house formerly occupied by worshippers who responded to the preacher's utterances with occasional shouts of ‘Amen!’.
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To most of those who composed the amen corner it was a magnificent and beautiful experience.
In the earliest days of my memory there were still audible amens coming from the amen corner.
Because here in the amen corner of the wingnut choir, we're all singing from the same hymnal!
Definition of amen corner in US English:
amen corner
noun
US
1(in some Protestant churches) seats, usually near the preacher, occupied by those who lead responses from the congregation.
Example sentencesExamples
To most of those who composed the amen corner it was a magnificent and beautiful experience.
In the earliest days of my memory there were still audible amens coming from the amen corner.
Because here in the amen corner of the wingnut choir, we're all singing from the same hymnal!
1.1informal A group of people that give unwavering support.
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Because here in the amen corner of the wingnut choir, we're all singing from the same hymnal!
We all know, of course, about Pat Buchanan, first denounced by Abe Rosenthal as an anti-Semite for suggesting that there was an amen corner in America.
Kojo completely failed to raise this point, and when he looked to the Jewish guest to respond to the Palestianians, she served as their amen corner.
In a secular context, those in the ' amen corner ' are followers who can be counted on to agree with whatever their leader says.
That is not a racist statement, however inflammatory it is for Israel's amen corner.
Look, it was an echo chamber, amen corner.
Maybe he simply wants to excite his amen corner - that is, people who might rush out and see, buy or rent his movies.
Too often they're not in opposition; they're an amen corner.
I would jump, clap, run and lead the amen corner.
And when he said that, someone in the crowd shouted out amen, and the president joked there's sort of an amen corner over at the CIA, Roland.
Also declining comment was Pat Buchanan, the conservative presidential candidate who once caught flak for calling Israel's supporters in the press the "amen corner."
To those of us who've been paying attention, it's a familiar sermon, but you can find me in Neiwert's "amen corner" any day.
And for Hamel - for nearly everyone in the New Economy amen corner - that was perfectly OK, if not downright virtuous.
Buchanan was blasted as an anti-Semite years ago when he cited Israel's "amen corner" in Congress.
His charges spread like a prairie fire through the rabid conservative grapevine and amen corner.
But shouldn't bishops be more than the pope's amen corner?