A person becomes guilty of a more subtle idolatry, however, when, although overt acts of adoration are avoided, he attaches to a creature the confidence, loyalty, and devotion that properly belong only to the Creator.
Mr. Blot (pronounced blow), who specialized in turning ailing companies around, maintained a formal household with a butler, cook and gardener in attendance, and his various homes in the United States and England, all decorated with European antiques and in subtle colors, reflected his devotion to simple elegance.
As with the other great street-inspired food we found in Vietnam, the secret was in the narrowly focused menus, a devotion to the subtle and complicated combinations of ingredients, and a commitment to the culinary traditions of the street.
Her 2011 collection of Rossini arias showed soprano Julia Lezhneva to be a singer of uncommon ability and vivacity, to which this Decca debut of baroque motets adds the subtler qualities of generosity and devotion.
There is nothing subtle about the film, including its abject devotion to classic kung fu fare.
Her rapture is more subtle, grand, intelligent and cosmological; and her primary devotion is to the coral reefs.
It is therefore legitimate to take a calculated risk, for the sake of less money-soaked elections.The risk that Mr Neuborne proposes is a subtle one, for he does not renounce his devotion to free speech.
And despite the subtle differences that arose in the various Protestant church bodies, devotion to this teaching has been central to Protestantism throughout its history.
Their noxious attitude was seductive, and so, too, was their earnest devotion to the old-fashioned craft of hip-hop: subtle rhythms and unexpected rhyme endings, do-it-yourself beatmaking and engrossing storytelling.
"Selma's Negro community is, in fact, in an hour of new and more subtle crisis — a tragic crisis when it is contrasted with the soaring hopes and selfless devotion they and their friends demonstrated here such a short time ago".
The BBCNOW players responded to Otaka with an almost childlike devotion, with Tim Thorpe's horn solos suitably magical, and leader Lesley Hatfield's playing capturing the subtle balance between ecstatic and demonic in the scherzo's violin solos.
