devotional

Example Sentences

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A policy argument has a limited shelf life; a devotional or memoir can sell indefinitely.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

“On Hold” best married the band’s two worlds, sample-soaked yet rock driven; “Angels” remained a peerless devotional ballad.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Those bearing the structures often gyrate to the beat provided by percussionists alongside religious chants and devotional folk songs.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

Above all, the music serves to amplify the devotional mood of the film, which resembles nothing so much as an impassioned church service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Aquinas Christianized Ad Herennium, partly misunderstood it—misreading “solitude” for “solicitude,” thus accidentally discovering a devotional aspect in it—and became the patron saint of medieval mnemotechnics.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith