Blame it on an excess of devotion — always becoming in a woman.
In a last excess of devotion, he had himself carried to Cleopatra's retreat and there died, after bidding her to make her peace with Octavian.
The victims had been barred from Mr. Thioune's country house near the town of Thiès — where his closest disciples would gather in the immense courtyard — mostly because of an excess of devotion, according to Mr. Seye, the justice ministry official.
As Michael Downing documents in a richly human book about American spirituality, "Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center," the Zen community in San Francisco in the nineteen-sixties and seventies similarly produced excellence and exhaustion in equal measure.
Just two weeks after the world-renowned parades of Semana Santa (Holy Week) come to an end on Easter Sunday, the atmosphere in the city is transformed from sombre devotion to hedonistic excess, as the locals strip off their penitents' robes and squeeze into their sexy flamenco gear, because the Feria de Abril is when they really get the party started.
Trapped in a world of fluid sexuality and total excess, Brad and Janet begin to question their devotion not only to each other but also to adhering to the social norms they previously felt were so important.
Indeed, many believe that living a sober life, free of risk and excess and recklessness, is evidence of devotion to a higher power.
Enter aspiring American writer Edith, wonderfully played by Mia Wasikowska as a kind of flickering human candelabra amid the film's necessarily purple excesses: the possibly doomed declarations of devotion between lovers, the bloodied ectoplasm trailed by the mansion's phantoms, the tightly wound veins popping against the deathly complexion of Chastain's deliciously kinked-out Mrs Danvers figure.
Even her ultimate devotion to good works exudes a touch of penitential excess that steers well clear of sentimentality.
Mr. Dufour had cooked and been a partner at Au Pied de Cochon, a Montreal restaurant that is the subject of devotion in the food-crazy set for its commitment to excess.
