It is also a time when the laity take on vows of study and fasting with a spiritual intensity similar to temporary monasticism.

Also audiences clearly find in opera a spiritual intensity and cathartic richness they are not always getting from the straight theatre.

Milosz's spiritual intensity never interfered with his historical clarity.

His position, succinctly stated, was "A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."

Both artists shared a love of ancient buildings set in idealised landscapes, charged with a spiritual and mystical intensity.

The Requiem, a work of intimate spiritual intensities, benefits greatly from this treatment.

Apart from a few overtly Christian symbols in later pieces, the spiritual intensity of this artist's vision throughout his life is remarkably of a piece.

But, dear one," she said, with such spiritual intensity that her eyes were like pole stars, "it is I who wish it.

His work is remarkable for its spiritual intensity.

Because of that, the conferences carry a special spiritual intensity.