Sentence examples for intimate devotion from inspiring English sources

Ramprasad was the first Shakta poet to address Kali with such intimate devotion, and to sing of her as a tender loving mother or even as a little girl.

Every aspect of this book is precious, from the gold leaf that makes the pages glow to the image painted by Rogier van der Weyden.By contrast, the bread and butter of illuminators was the "Book of Hours": a pocket-sized breviary, sometimes no more than three inches high, which was designed as an intimate object of devotion to guide the reader in prayer.

A vow, though, is such an intimate expression of devotion that it defies instruction.

Subtitled "" (Church hymns and chants from the collection of David's psalms), it is based on psalms, the Song of Songs, the Gospels, and passages by Bernard of Clairvaux, "significantly designed for intimate and private devotion".

In its way, Cohen's renunciation of more conventional concerts and recordings, or, rather, his devotion to intimate and contextualized performance, is even more radical — and, arguably, his approach to playing the piano, and to the compositions he performs, is even more original than Gould's.

Primatologist Jane Goodall and Nobel laureate and corn geneticist Barbara McClintock immediately come to mind as examples of independent scientists whose devotion and intimate understanding of their study species resulted in major breakthroughs.

In such circumstances, I ought to devote my resources to promoting your devotion to your intimates.

Like hatchings, the dispatchings caused by cancer give people like Kim and me a final trimester, more or less, in which we can labor to forgive and be forgiven, to speak and hear vows of devotion from our intimates, to visit or not be visited by acquaintances.

Consider, in the most intimate of our relationships, is our devotion expressed more in what we do for our beloved, or in what we do not do because of them?

The "cross controversy" that followed the Smolensk crash and dominated Polish headlines this summer was evidence of the intimate intertwining of Polish national identity and Catholic devotion.

Certain practicalities get in the way of sex (children awakening at night or cuddling between them in bed), other practicalities get in the way of desire itself (the myriad demands on their attention prove distracting), and what seems comical is the very idea of these life partners, despite their apparent emotional intimacy and mutual devotion to their family, getting physically intimate at all.