Can dance be an expression of devotion?
One manifestation of America's devotion to driving is a Federal tax rule that makes an employer-provided parking space a tax-free benefit, now worth up to $175 a month.
After nature, it was Christian mysticism that most inspired Mr. Hovhaness, and he often made the case that the two things were inseparable -- that his awe of nature was simply a manifestation of his religious devotion.
Peering into a grandson's crib, reading a bedtime story to an invalid wife, glimpsing the erotic curve of a daughter-in-law's hip -- all become encores of earlier moments, manifestations of the "cycles of devotion, tragedy, idiosyncrasy and outrage" that make up his (or any) life.
"The Mass is meant to be a public manifestation of the public enthusiasm for Archbishop Sheen, a showing of devotion, which could build more enthusiasm," said Msgr. Richard Soseman, who is serving as the delegate for the canonization cause for the Rev. Daniel R. Jenky, the bishop of Peoria.
Grand temples and pagodas mushroomed everywhere, and paintings and statues of the Buddhist pantheon appeared in places high and low as tangible manifestations of people's devotion.
Such a manifestation of the sacred a phenomenon that Eliade called a "hierophany"—subsequently becomes an object of devotion in a religious tradition.
It is a matter of devotion.
The Donnas inspire this kind of devotion.
These are works of devotion.
Spenta Armaiti (Beneficent Devotion), the spirit of devotion and faith, guides and protects the believer.
