They were highly observant Muslims who prayed five times a day.
The young are highly observant, learning how to behave by watching the adults, and they may even rehearse their roles.
Even in families that are not highly observant, numerous women grapple with the question of premarital sex.
As for Jonny, he — like the hero of "Kapitoil" — is a highly observant and thoughtful narrator, caught up in the swirl of big-time American success, but with growing intimations of its dark side.
Unfortunately, most of us are highly susceptible to the vulnerabilities and flaws of our own minds unless we're aware and observant enough to compensate for them.
For example, Kubu Sembilang, the village in the Karo District in northern Sumatra where the flu killed seven members of one family, was a Christian and animist village, while northern Sumatra is a center of highly observant Islam.
The essay is clever, warm and highly observant and introspective.
Whereas attacks were initially mostly confined to highly observant rural areas, the murder of Xulhaz Mannan and his friend took place in the heart of the capital, Dhaka.
Neighbors and friends of the three have said that at least from the outside, it appeared that their transformations from aimless Western youths to highly observant Muslims were bewilderingly thorough.
As yeshiva enrollments have grown, so, too, has the religious influence of the right wing -- at the expense of Orthodoxy's once dominant modern wing, which holds that Jews can be fully observant and highly involved in wider American society.
