"I feel a strong spiritual pull to go back to the South," Ms. Brown said.
Both gumbos were deeply complex, wildly exotic and perfectly balanced all at once: alternatingly briny, hot, savory and sweet elements mingled to mesmerizing effect, producing a slightly mysterious, almost spiritual pull that made us reach for spoonful after spoonful.
But there's something else, too, which may admittedly be a luxury limited to those who don't have to live in extremely cramped spaces from economic necessity – a deeper, quasi-spiritual pull towards the small.
I feel a strong spiritual and emotional pull to build another program.
Rather than converting to one set mythology, younger people tend to pull spiritual ideas and practices from any source that works.
There will be good food in jail, and time for contemplation, and, who knows, you may even, eventually, have a great spiritual revelation and pull your head out of your ass! Isn't that better than living on the lam?
Hog has geographical scope too, recreating recipes from India (Goan pork vindaloo), Canada (pig's head poutine) and the Deep South, spiritual home of pulled pork.
But faith as a spiritual entity which pulls people through the rough seas of life through to the other side intact is not what religion in general seems to represent.
Spiritual reinforcements had pulled into town a day earlier, when the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team arrived on a bus still coated with dust from a recent trip to California, where chaplains met with families who lost homes to the Valley and Butte fires.
He began recording his own projects, as well as high-profile encounters with stars including Tony Bennett, but philosophical and spiritual considerations were increasingly pulling him away from the mainstream music business.
Even though I could relate to Esther Kaminsky's yearnings and spiritual questions, Jerusalem Maiden pulled me into unfamiliar territory, into the world of Jerusalem's Orthodox Jews.
