Sentence examples for widespread devotion from inspiring English sources

The Crusades thus reflected the widespread devotion to the church and to its leader, the pope.

The national game inspires widespread devotion and the national team justified pride.

Hope, who supported the bombing of Hanoi, failed to comprehend why he had suddenly lost the widespread devotion that had hitherto been bestowed on him by the common soldier.

Filmed in Moscow and Madrid and around the United States -- from gospel choirs in Detroit to the rooftop of police headquarters in Dallas ("The same precinct where Ruby shot Oswald," he said) -- "The Messiah" documents the widespread devotion that the text and music inspire.

However, shepherds did in fact recognise a common protective saint, with widespread devotion, not necessarily the patron saint.

She added that there isn't the same widespread devotion to gymnastics.

He started experimenting — tasting his way through San Francisco's Chinatown — and took over an existing Chinese joint in the Mission district, which went on to incite widespread cultish devotion.

Moreover, the autocracy of the Khalīfah had become increasingly acceptable to most Sudanese, and, having tempered his own despotism and eliminated the gross defects of his administration, he, too, received the widespread acceptance, if not devotion, that the Sudanese had accorded the Mahdī.

I thought back to the first years of our marriage, how we enthusiastically participated in this widespread ritual of public devotion, doling out trinkets and baubles and surprising one another with special meals and trips.

His devotion to his family is the reason for widespread speculation that this postseason is his career curtain call.

The subject, as far from her past as possible, supported the increasingly widespread contention that the only constant in her work was a devotion to physical beauty, without regard to race.