Sentence examples for devout student from inspiring English sources

Cooper is a devout student of Zen.

Though an audaciously modern composer, Mr. Adès is a devout student of music's past.

He was a devout student of Judaism, and was sent to Jerusalem for schooling with one of the most eminent rabbis of the age.

As Jay Parini, a devout student of Carnegie's work, has noted: between 1989, when Soviet communism failed and 1997, How to Win Friends went through no fewer than 68 editions in a Russian translation.

While any devout student is forced to make compromises and choices, Muslims face particular challenges because essential elements of campus life, like drinking and dating, are prohibited by their religion.

Though his contemporaries described him as a quiet, devout student who initially associated only with other "religious-minded" men, he later became more sociable and rowed in the college second eight.

That is why several conservative Christian groups are siding with the young pot enthusiast; they worry that politically-correct schools will punish devout students for expressing Biblical views about, for example, homosexuality.On the other hand, the case is not only about free speech.

Here's one pitch: Seth Rogen is a devout rabbinical student at a Brooklyn yeshiva, when a raucous hipster night club moves in next door.

When Isaiah Marin, a devout Christian student in Oklahoma, got pissed off with his 19-year-old goth roommate Jacob Crockett recently, he brought a machete to a card game and attempted to hack his head off.

He was a devout Muslim, a student of the Koran, one of the best chess players of his day, and a remorseless general whose cruelty shocked even the troops he led.

Darin Abu Eisheh, a devout Muslim college student from this village near Nablus, believed that women should take their place beside men in the fight against Israeli occupation, her relatives said today.