Sentence examples for gestures of devotion from inspiring English sources

And in the lonely late night, after a day of tension, she responds to his timid gestures of devotion with a touching mixture of spontaneous feeling and reticence.

Among the many other gestures of devotion and veneration practiced in the liturgically oriented churches such as the Roman Catholic Church, the High Church Anglican churches, and the Orthodox Church are kissing the altar, the Gospel, the cross, and the holy icons.

He did it as if his whole heart were in it: it became a gesture of devotion.

But Mostel insisted that Tevye, like the Orthodox Jews with whom the actor had grown up, would never neglect to make the customary gesture of devotion that acknowledges the case of sacred parchment affixed to doorways of Jewish homes.

What Petit brought off was a remarkable, even religious gesture of devotion, both to the building and to New York itself; this was, in fact, a unique act of homage no other artist could have managed, and New Yorkers instantly appreciated it.

While church pews often go empty in Europe, and especially in France, gestures of popular devotion like those to the Virgin Mary in Lourdes thrive.

Among the gestures of filial devotion from Mr. Xi and his brothers and sisters, the celebrations have offered glimpses of what it was like to grow up a "princeling," the offspring of a revolutionary leader who served alongside Mao.

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.

It consisted of expressions of repentance for misdeeds and abject appeals for mercy but also included some gestures of defiance, playing heavily on Bakunin's devotion to the Slavs and hatred of the Germans sentiments that were noted with interest and approval by the tsar.

These are works of devotion.

It is a matter of devotion.