Sentence examples for dark devotion from inspiring English sources

Depardieu plays Donissan, a country priest with literally self-flagellating faith and an obsession with ambient evil, which he susses out like a divine detective, driving his parishioners to fear, despair, and suicide, all the while asserting the miraculous power of his dark devotion.

The songs are twisted both sonically – warping 90s R&B melodies with club beats – and emotionally, thanks to her ability to undercut mainstream pop tropes like love and seduction with such dark devotion you get the sense she's singing from a bush outside her ex-boyfriend's house.

Now, most dramatically, in A DARK DEVOTION (Soho, $25), a woman of unblemished beauty and virtue is lost to the treacherous North Sea when it breaches the flood barriers protecting a group of small farms huddled in the salt flats of Norfolk.

(Brecht's "Mother Courage" is a more scabrously dark story of maternal devotion).

Mr. Bajaj, who has a throwback devotion to dark business suits, carries a cultivated air of mystery, which includes his skill at appearing to be in more than one of his restaurants at a time.

But no matter your mood du jour, you choose to honor your commitment and devotion even during dark days.

When I was in my rebellious phase Songs of Faith And Devotion, Depeche Mode (1993) The darker side of Depeche Mode drew me in.

And a pair / of dark cypresses sway to and fro in wordless devotion.

Yet he ignored a dark historical reality: not only are intensity, beauty, and devotion insufficient to halt violence, they can become its soundtrack.

Fleeting flavours of bass culture can be heard on her debut album Devotion but they never dominate the songs – a dark, emotional bunch, all mixed feelings and adult themes, which can give them a power ballad feel at times.

But let adults know that their obsessive devotion is feeding something far more frightening than the dark arts: a retreat from the complexities of adulthood in a dangerous world.