Sentence examples for secular form from inspiring English sources

This inverse hierarchy took secular form.

It also finds itself replicated in secular form.

By Adam Gopnik Robert Wright argues for meditation as a fully secular form of psychotherapy.

Under the influence of the new madrigal (a polyphonic Italian secular form), the old lied tradition decayed.

The frottola remained the prevailing secular form in northern Italy for the first three decades of the century.

This is probably because the private, imprecise language of mysticism fits uneasily in the secular form of the realist novel.

They speak Yiddish, and resist television, the Internet, and other secular forms of entertainment.

Italian Renaissance painting, especially in its secular forms, is alive with visually coded expressions of humanistic philosophy.

It's true that secular musical forms, training and traditions developed along the way, and throughout history one finds great contrasts in style and emphasis between sacred and secular forms in classical music.

Anthropological studies have shown that indigenous religions gave birth to many forms of art that, in the course of development, won independence as secular forms of expression.

In the Islamic world, under the influence of Arabic poetry, Hebrew poetry rose to great heights in both liturgical and secular forms.