Sentence examples for centuries of devotion from inspiring English sources

First, can what Father Poole calls "a pious fiction" be transmuted by centuries of devotion into what Professor Brading calls "a sublime parable"?

This experienced Brucknerian – after some half century of devotion to the composer – holds all in control, and brings a welcome lightness and gleam to the second movement Scherzo.

They threw away a century of devotion to building the best.

If a fizzled attempt to explode propane in a car in Times Square can drive Lieberman to summarily sacrifice centuries of this nation's devotion to the rule of law and protection of the individual, it wouldn't take much to send him into the dark world of totalitarian madness.

Like the Virashaiva movement of the 12th century, this movement presented another strong current of devotion, pervading the lives of millions.

In the 19th century the devotion of Charles Lamb helped to bring the Anatomy into favour with the Romantics.

WHIRLING DERVISHES OF DAMASCUS This mystical dance form was created in the thirteenth century by the Sufi mystic Rumi, as a form of devotion and a path to enlightenment.

Another wave of devotion (bhakti) in the 17th century 18th century found inspiration in his teachings.

Between the 5th and 10th centuries ce it was the provincial capital of many Hindu dynasties and a centre of devotion to the god Shiva.

The spirit of devotion, faith, and respect for moral standards that has throughout the centuries pervaded the subcontinent's social structure is continuously represented in South Asian painting and sculpture.

The writings of various travellers in the Holy Land, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, tell of how the Wall and its environs continued to be a place of devotion for the Jews.