All creation was presumed to be a great chain of being, running from the tiniest insect to the Godhead itself, and the universe was seen as an organic whole in which each part played a divinely prescribed role.
She sang along as though no one else was in the room and in her eyes I saw her 20-year-old, guitar-playing, divinely gorgeous, creative self.
Things like "mwargh" or "oooooohh" or even "bwah" and "digee" will work divinely.
The supporting cast features standouts like Jordan Gavaris, who plays Sarah's divinely bitchy brother Felix with sensitivity and flair; Maria Doyle Kennedy, who plays Felix and Sarah's former foster mother; and Matt Frewer, who plays a messianic scientist.
Previous statesmen had been exercised by things like the common good and public virtue (which usually meant making sure that people played their allotted roles in the divinely established order).
Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.
Fresh from his triumphs in the east, Pompey plays his part in "Lustrum" but it is the cool, divinely reckless Caesar who casts the longer shadow.
The belief that war and other activities are divinely inspired and that your religious group is superior to all others plays a crucial role in maintaining culture and supporting warfare and the ability to kill "inferior" races of humans.
For instance, in the next scene to film, Jesus (they don't call him Black Jesus on the show) will attempt to play peacemaker in a dispute over control of a community garden that just happens to produce divinely inspired, THC-infused tomatoes.
THERE have been many incarnations of Sally Bowles, Christopher Isherwood's divinely decadent "Berlin Stories" heroine, and Liza Minnelli didn't seem the most logical choice to play her.
It was Streep who called Olivia Colman "divinely gifted" during her 2012 Bafta acceptance speech for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (Colman played her daughter, Carol).
