Sentence examples for secular setting from inspiring English sources

And the religious overtones in the secular setting".

At the Taganka, he frequently supplies inventive music for dramatic productions, while at the School of Dramatic Art, he has brought sacred music -- in compositions like "The Lament of Jeremiah" -- to a secular setting.

If neither approach works, remind your colleague that in our pluralistic society, invoking God for narrow self-interest in a distinctly secular setting is a practice customarily reserved for winners of a Grammy.

Defiantly asserting their faith in a secular setting, they invited curious, even slightly hostile, glances, especially from a woman with dyed blond hair who wore stilettos and a purple T-shirt over tight white pants.

The pressures of Bach's weekly grind have something in common with Haydn's professional life a few years later, the difference for Haydn being the secular setting as head musician to the noble house of Esterhazy.

One night, I stayed in the secular setting of Kanab, Utah, where I drank Polygamy Porter — a fine beer — over dinner with a man who told me he used to have three wives.

(For instance, a nun "should go and sell all that she has and take care to distribute the proceeds to the poor" and "once her hair has been cut off round her head and her secular dress set aside, she is to be allowed three tunics and a mantle … she may not go outside the monastery except for some useful, reasonable, evident, and approved purpose").

He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

No Istanbul or Ankara for the secular set this time.

In 1943 he won the first Pulitzer Prize ever given in music for "A Free Song," a secular cantata setting a text by Whitman.

Saramago's secular parables, set mostly in unnamed or imaginary countries, easily float off into universality.