Sentence examples for devout dad from inspiring English sources

Mirallegro's Kenan has his head turned by the big city while his devout dad Noah (David Threlfall) builds his sanctuary from the imminent flood.

But if the argument is thin, the humour is attractively impish, as when Christie's Isaac Newton collection falls out of a tree and on to her devout dad, or when she explains how she and Lee make their relationship work by "not ever talking to each other about anything, ever".

Thérèse (Lindsay Younce) confesses her "terrible sins" to her devout widower dad, including the time she took a big hunk of cake after dinner.

"The irony was, my dad was a devout Irish-Catholic Democrat Kennedy supporter," said Thomas Hosty, one of Mr. Hosty's nine children, a lawyer, who helped his father write his 1995 memoir, "Assignment: Oswald".

Not so many, perhaps, will have opted – when our particular dad is a devout church-goer, lifelong American football fan and all-round conservative icon – to declare ourselves an atheist aged 12, exchange Yale for a career as a ballet dancer, and speak out forcefully in favour of abortion, taxes and universal healthcare.

Mum and Dad belonged to a devout religion quite like the Quakers who were against eating animals on moral grounds.

His dad was a supermarket manager and a devout Jehovah's Witness.

To put it into perspective: rural community; prominent political family (his dad is the Vice Chairman of the Tribe); devout Catholics.

However, he put on a brave face as we went to see many of his dad's relatives after the funeral; all very lovely people who are devout Christians.

Not amenable to humor, but handled with exquisite care whenever it resurfaces, is this: that I (from her point of view) "exaggerated" the harshness with which she treated Dad in those early years and that she (from my point of view) was, as a devout churchgoer engaging in un-Christian behavior, a "hypocrite".

He was devout – quite conventionally devout.