Mr. Giuliani's lack of religious devotion gives him the potential to upend the nation's moribund abortion debate.
Finally, a compact and complete triptych of the Madonna and Child with four saints, attributed to Naddo Ceccarelli and made for private devotion, gives a sense of how multipart paintings work.
His religion and his complex, critical relationship to it in which early devotion gave way to a deep agnosticism that was yet indebted to the symbolism and structures of Catholicism remained a central preoccupation.
Such zealous devotion "gives me a sense of job security," Mr. Pollard, 46, said by phone from a tour stop in Towson, Md. His output is, to say the least, rare in pop music.
Vauchez believes that the stigmatization — confirmation that Christ recognized his devotion — gave Francis a measure of peace, signalled by his writing the "Canticle of Brother Sun," with its emphasis on God the Father and his beautiful creation, as opposed to the Son and his torments.
Yet the tension was just as great, its hold equally gripping, in the Adagio: a final demonstration on Bruckner's part of effortful cohesion and unblinking devotion, given a spellbinding account that showed Mr. Welser-Möst and the orchestra in their finest light.
This voice, coming in that moment of time, and at that crisis of uncertainty and anxiety for the future, was taken as a direction what was to be done; so that Lucretius, assuming an attitude of devotion, gave sentence in concurrence with the gods, as he said, as likewise did all that followed.
As it is, "Devotions" gives just enough.
Sure, that's sort of trite, and compared to the handwritten love poem or gesture of complete devotion (like giving up SportsCenter or Jimmy Choos for a year), buying a mere motorcar for your lover isn't quite as personal or original an idea as you'd prefer.
