Sentence examples for be particularly observant from inspiring English sources

He met his wife, who is Muslim, on a C.I.A. posting overseas, and converted to Islam to marry her, though he is not known to be particularly observant.

The show is particularly observant about the different ways in which men and women engage in chitchat and one-upmanship.

He had been raised Catholic, he said, but had never been particularly observant; he had some "unorthodox" ideas, too, such as a belief in reincarnation.

It's not necessarily intended in a malicious way, but employees are particularly observant of these things and often comparing themselves to the way their peers are treated.

Neither is particularly observant, though Ms. Fayad fasts for Ramadan, and Mr. Guggenheim tries to do the same for Yom Kippur.

Although the community as a whole has not been particularly observant in recent decades, from the start of the country's civil war in the 1990s, Bosnian Muslims were subjected to a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing by extremists from the Serb Orthodox and Croat Catholic communities.

He is particularly observant of the monomania the turf can engender: the obsession that led a future king to explain that his mistresses were his "hacks" while his wife was his "brood mare", and to request that the opening of the Kiel canal be delayed until after Ascot; and that led a future prime minister to write, on being sent down from Oxford: "Dear Mother, I have left Oxford.

Nations that are particularly observant of certain religions seem to think their religion dictates morality.

Not all are particularly religiously observant.

Finding such minyanim can be particularly urgent even for Jews who are not observant but have lost relatives within the last year.

He says his family was not particularly observant when he was growing up, although after he had left home his father trained as a rabbi once he had retired as an accountant.