Sentence examples for intensified devotion from inspiring English sources
Once industrial cities have ceased to be generally important to the world - once their old purpose has gone - they often survive as a self-conscious parody; a two-dimensional cut-out assembled from football scarves, an intensified devotion to the local accent, cultural strategies and heritage trails, all in the name of identity and difference, and with an eye to tourism.
The high-mindedness and subtlety on glorious display in Philadelphia last week won over the press, gave Obama enough breathing room to turn to Iraq and the economy, and intensified the devotion of the kind of educated liberal voter once drawn to Adlai Stevenson, who virtually created the type.
She had been active in charity work in California while she was married, but her devotion intensified after a priest led her to La Mesa state penitentiary, which housed convicted murderers, gang leaders, rapists and other serious felons.
(Ordinary jubilees are proclaimed every 25 years; the pontiff has the right to proclaim extra ones if he feels the spiritual need).God and Mammon have often been uncomfortably close during holy years, a time when Catholics are encouraged to make pilgrimages to Rome, intensify their devotions, and meditate on such themes as mercy and pardon.
Dr. Johnson said that he was speechless and that he went to the chief of surgery, "who explained that it was just the state of medicine". The experience left him furious and filled with a desire to improve cancer care, a devotion that intensified when his mother was found to have cancer a few months later.
For 12 years Guru Hargobind remained a prisoner, but Sikh devotion to him only intensified.
According to architectural historian Edward Hubbard, Douglas's life "seems to have been one of thorough devotion to architecture ... which may well have been intensified by the death of his wife and other domestic worries".
"The dancing intensified..
The heat has intensified.
