Sentence examples for secular material from inspiring English sources

But they also breeze through secular material, like "Silver Bells" and "The Chipmunk Song," and their "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and "Silent Night" verge on sultry.

As if to offer some relief from the show's devotional spell, the Washington curator, Susan M. Arensberg, head of exhibition programs at the National Gallery, has placed, at about the halfway point, a gallery of mostly secular material.

Last comes an array of secular material: clothing, jewelry and riding gear owned by Tibetan nobles and church officials who ruled the country on a top-down feudal model, one that the Chinese communists found abhorrent.

But she also shocked her original fans by appearing at the Cotton Club and singing secular material – some of it, such as Four or Five Times and I Want a Tall Skinny Papa, decidedly risqué.

Ms. Staples is part of a generation of female soul singers, also including Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, who started their careers with gospel music in church and later shifted to secular material.

Medieval Jews played a prominent role in the transmission of Middle Eastern and Asian tales to the West and enhanced their own repertoire with a goodly amount of secular material.

According to spokesman David Smith, "Air Education and Training Command is conducting a comprehensive review of training materials that address morals, ethics, core values and related character development issues to ensure appropriate and balanced use of all religious and secular source material".

Cacophonous being a secular label releasing material by a band that held Christian beliefs generated some interest in the metal scene.

Its inclusion marked the only secular composition on Material World, as well as a rare foray into rock amid the album's abundance of spiritually themed ballads and occasional acoustic-based pop such as "Give Me Love" and "Don't Let Me Wait Too Long".

Although Narconon claims to be secular, its written materials and the doctrines from which its beliefs and practices originate are directly adapted from the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.

In The Way We'll Be, I call this walk away from materialism "Secular Spiritualism," or the belief that the American Dream is measured in spiritual, not material, fulfillment.