The year's hip-hop breakthrough melds spiritual fervor with block-party warmth, countering rap's frequently hateful messages with a generous dollop of hope.

In qawwali, as in American gospel music, flamboyant virtuosity testifies to spiritual fervor.

Eventually, he and Sandy went shopping for another place of worship and wound up at a different Assemblies church, albeit one with less overt spiritual fervor.

Yet its ambiguities are fascinating and its spiritual fervor is genuine.

The choreographic presentations stressed spiritual fervor and Mr. Kirstein's belief in ballet as an evolving art passed from one generation of dancers to another.

Move... reveals that much, as it finds the group embracing, hopefully definitively, that midpoint between spiritual fervor and Southern rock passion that suits them so well".

One explanation for their current omnipresence, Messiaen himself might have hoped, would be a return of spiritual fervor, in direct challenge to what I called above our secular modern age.

The spiritual fervor of some coaches and athletes at public institutions, however, did not escape notice at the high school level this month.

Under Mikell Pinkney's direction, the quartet switches from comedy to spiritual fervor without clashing gears.

Everyone around him was filled with spiritual fervor and had taken Abhinavagupta as their spiritual master.