They were special miles, charged with the added weight of longing, with devotion and desire and loss and intention.
However, it's the type of small, tight-knit community where rumors travel fast, yet it's also one whose members are sympathetic to Josh's frustration, devotion, and desire for action, though perhaps not his methods.
Called "Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art," it includes, along with medieval reliquaries on loan from the Met, work by Beuys and other deceased figures — Hannah Wilke, Stuart Sherman — whose art was based on ritual performance and bodily presence and who have assumed posthumous cult status.
This new understanding of mannequins, of inanimate human forms more generally, confirms a need to attend to our own obsessions with, devotion to, and desire for things.
It's a song unable to keep itself together emotionally, an aimless yelp of devotion, pain and desire.
From her earliest years she demonstrated religious devotion and the desire for a life of prayer.
(Scott)20100311 'EYES WIDE OPENo (No rating, 1 30, in Hebrew) This spare, observant drama, set in an Ultra-Orthodox section of Jerusalem, captures the tension between religious devotion and sexual desire without sentimentalizing or condemning either impulse.
You can sense their impatience, their devotion and, finally, their desire not to settle for a performance on the surface.
On the same day the museum will open "Wondrous Journeys: The Walters Collection From Egyptian Tombs to Medieval Castles" and "Desire and Devotion: Art From India, Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection".
And as the mannequin makes clearer as a fetish, a thing, a commodity, a possession, and an obsession, so it highlights how its magic might act upon us, how it might become for us an object for adoration and devotion, and even one of desire, lust, and sex.
By removing material desires, one is able to focus fully on devotion and service to God.
