Sentence examples for monastic devotion from inspiring English sources
In Eastern Orthodoxy the prayer rope predates the Catholic rosary and is mainly a monastic devotion.
Todd Louiso plays a timid, mega-geeky music aficionado with an almost monastic devotion to obscure rock bands, while Jack Black plays a pudgy, acid-tongued social misfit with an encyclopedic knowledge of rock's dimly lit undergrowth.
The boy pursues this end with monastic devotion, practicing stretches and strengthening exercises, which Wallace describes in precise anatomical terminology — lateral malleolus, splenius capitis, longissimus cervicis, etc. — creating a coolly detached, almost scientific portrait of psychological extremity.
It's really refreshing to think about your almost monastic devotion to craft, paintings, subjects.
Davis is widely known for his intense, nearly monastic, devotion to his craft, spending years searching for just the right samples.
Known for his monastic lifestyle and unquestioning devotion to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Jalili was touted as a frontrunner in an election in which loyalty and tractability appear to trump the more conventional leadership qualities displayed by other conservative candidates.
There is an innocence – an almost monastic purity – about Ant's enduring devotion to pop; after coming off antidepressants a few years ago, he began performing live again, playing modest venues, often unannounced, and later this year he will release a new album.
In the 360s he turned to religious studies and Christian devotion, perhaps even to the monastic life, under Basil's inspiration and guidance.
But Robbins is self-taught, and his devotion to his studies borders on the monastic.
He was compelled to resign this office in 1009 and retire to Chrysopolis because of his austere monastic policy and a dispute with the Patriarch of Constantinople over methods of spirituality, especially his devotion to his former monk tutor, Symeon the Studite.
