churchly

How To Use churchly In A Sentence

• Also, my mom adored him, so she would probably support the union somewhere deep down under her churchly morals. Kiss It
• Lyrically poetic and understated, this album has a churchly feel that makes for perfect nighttime chillout music.
• At a time when most Christian music was staid and churchly, they started a Christian rock band that soon was being tapped for a national record deal.
• Yet for all its eclecticism it builds in a single arc -- its core the long second movement, propelled upward by quasi-Minimalist rhythmic repetitions -- until the exuberant jam session is capped by the churchly sobriety of the orchestral idiom, returning as if to remind everyone of where they are, though more focusing the mood than interrupting it. In performance: NSO and Yo-Yo Ma
• He refused to countenance all the signs of worldly glory and churchly vainglory.
• The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
• Her celibate, churchly brother was charged with guiding her beloved John into the priesthood.
• They see that as part of their churchly mission, says Matthew Burbank, a political expert at the University of Utah. Mitt Romney leads the charge as Mormonism moves into the American mainstream
• Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained.
• Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.