Sentence examples for An intense devotion from inspiring English sources

This disaster led to an intense devotion for an image of Christ called The Lord of the Miracles, which has been taken out in procession every October since 1746.

Throughout his adult life Bruckner displayed an intense devotion to the spiritual life; an inexorable appetite for musical study, revision, and improvement; and a love of practice and improvisation at the organ.

From the first she was motivated largely by an intense devotion to the Anglican church.

He was 85. Silver was born in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in 1930, and showed an intense devotion to intellectualism and culture even in high school.

His view of the world, shaped by an intense devotion to Russian patriotism, Russian suffering, and Russian Orthodoxy, is alien to many former dissidents, who have been quick to call him a hard-line nationalist, a tsarist, a Slavophile.

The atmosphere of preparation for that first concert was heady with poverty and an intense devotion to Graham and her ideals, with Ms. Batcheller and Sabin saving the threads that unraveled from Graham's teaching clothes.

The same goes for an interminable running gag involving Clarence's intense devotion to George Michael.

Mr. Chomsky is a figure who inspires intense devotion, and equally intense revulsion; he is an intellectual hero to some and, to others, the embodiment of reflexive left-wing anti-Americanism.

Its menu has expanded to include some less adventurous fare, though what hasn't changed — and won't — is the restaurant's intense devotion to its cooks' motherland, evoked in an array of rustic classics.

This was "bhakti --an intense form of devotion expressed in art, poetry, song, dance or any practice that cultivated divine ecstasy and love.

Intense devotion to the national pastime at the Supreme Court is not a new phenomenon.