There was a small table at the back of the chapel, covered with a linen cloth, bearing the stoup of holy water, and beside it, a Bible and two or three other inspirational works.

Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan novels, also regarded as inspirational works, feature a bounty-hunting "witch-born" demon who battles numerous supernatural foes.

One senses both an erotic and a spiritual joy in these inspirational works.

Away goes what he calls "the image of an evangelical Lewis, simple in his devotion to 'mere Christianity,' " as one of his inspirational works was called, "and theologically preoccupied almost to the exclusion of all other interests."

Ballet evenings (August 3-15) will feature Mariinsky treasures: two great 19th-century classics, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, a triumphant Romeo and Juliet from Soviet times, and three inspirational works by George Balanchine.

If ever an artist was in the right place at the right time, it was Julio González (1876-1942), who, late in life, created welded wrought-iron, semi-abstract assemblages that would turn out to be among the most influential and inspirational works in all of Modern sculpture.

He has published biographies, medical and inspirational works, and numerous magazine articles.

The inspirational works included Japanese ceramics and French pottery with under-glaze decoration.

His desire to make the best films he could drove him and his talented teams to innovate, take risks, and do everything necessary to produce quite inspirational works.

Discussing this later at one of the Observations planning meetings, the idea of sharing 'inspirational works' appealed to all those present as complementing a tendency in review columns to focus on new titles and 'how to do it'guides.