It was a bit like Italy, minus the self-indulgent public debt and bunga-bunga parties.And since its rescue, Portugal has been most devout in repentance.
Burly and bearded, Muhammad was the most devout in the family, and perhaps the least discreet.
The idea of the niqab as a calculable statement of religious strictness, which overhangs this debate – veil wearers are the most devout, and therefore, it is rarely said but usually assumed, are either extremists or oppressed by other extremists – just isn't taken seriously by people who actually wear hijabs.
How is it that those who profess to be the most devout and godly can sit idly by as an ugly nationalist movement sweeps across America, driven by an engine fueled by sexual, gender, religious, ethnic, racial and cultural discrimination?
There were a lot of regulars, but Gregory might have been the most devout, the one who ran out and got Mr. Avery a coffee or kept him company for hours as he stripped furniture to make a few extra bucks.
My parents were the most devout Catholics I've ever known.
Sisters of Mercy Floodland (1987) Goth made most sense when taken to extremes, and Sisters of Mercy were its most devout absolutists.
Church attendance in the period itself shows the US to be the most devout with 550 out of 1,000 people, more than half the population, visiting a church.
One thinks of Poulenc's motets, for instance, or Messiaen's O Sacrum Convivium (how strange that this short but magical choral work should have been that most devout composer's only vocal utterance for sacred use).
The Uzbeks are Sunni Muslims, and they are considered to be among the most devout Muslims in all of Central Asia.
