Sentence examples for devotees for the from inspiring English sources

Often all it takes is the gradual accumulation of popularity, the gathering together of heaps of devotees for the writer's books, one after another, until there is a critical mass of ardent fans.

"Though we knew that offerings made to the temple by devotees for the last 500 years were lying in these secret cellars, the scale of the treasure has definitely surprised us," temple official Hari Kumar told the Guardian.

That's why I found myself standing in an endless line of other devotees for the first iPad.

I suppose there must be Fairway devotees for whom the big moment is donning the shiny black quilted jacket to enter the chilled meat room and cruise the rows of ostrich burgers and ham hocks.

Adherents of other belief systems also appear in the documentary, including a born-again Christian who criticizes devotees for "following the devil", and a Hare Krishna follower.

There is, moreover, a body of explicitly sexual poetry from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in southern India in which the love of a devotee for the deity is sometimes envisaged as being akin to the love of a temple dancing girl for her client.

In August 2012, an unidentified devotee for the first time donated two costly diamonds valuing Rs 11.8 million at the Shirdi temple, Saibaba trust officials revealed.

She attended her first opera at the age of four and was an opera devotee for the rest of her life.

The director, now 80, reached cult status, attracting many devotees for his wanton, over-the-top soap operas.

Why was it being kept there?" Naresh Mathur, one of the Karmapa's lawyers, said the money was from the devotees who for the past decade had come from around the world for the Karmapa's blessing.

And for many devotees of the Neujahrskonzert, or for anyone who heard them at the Proms with Bernard Haitink last year, that's exactly what it is.