Sentence examples for devout passion from inspiring English sources

As Sarah Brown, the object of Sky's bet and later of his affections, Jessica Grové reveals the devout passion of a Salvation Army-type missionary and an earthier passion hiding underneath.

So devout is his passion for tradition that during a typical performance, Mr. Feinstein often seems to play two roles at once.

Today's Turkey offers a current example: devout Muslims with a passion for secular democracy.

Young Bud (like Davies) is a devout moviegoer, and his passions are divided between his fearful awe of his Catholic-school religious practice and his personal cathedral of the movie theatre.

He was passionate, devout and deadly serious.

He is smart and accessible and sensible; he is a palpable human being, with passions — he is unfashionably devout — and mild quirks (he recently acknowledged enjoying "The Simpsons"), and he still plays the guitar.

Pedro the Lion is David Bazan, a quietly devout son of a minister who pens small passion plays, and whoever he is working with at the moment.

The report starts by mentioning a young college student named Jesse who had been brought up in a devout evangelical home, and grew up with a passion for defending his faith to friends and acquaintances.

Liszt, at times a devout Catholic, portrayed Dante's scenes with great imagination and passion, cleverly suiting his melody sometimes simple and tranquil, sometimes chromatic and writhing and harmony to the special characters of the three levels.

During the fifteenth century, the veneration of St. Margaret of Antioch, Saints Quiricus and Julitta, the Virgin, and the instruments of the passion of Christ inspired the production of amuletic rolls particularly suited to a devout woman nearing parturition.

He was devout – quite conventionally devout.