But they are rescued from mere jingoism by subversive humor and, at times, spiritual longing.
Ramakrishna was in Samadhi and this intensified his spiritual longing.
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
There was a real spiritual longing that Judaism doesn't fulfill.
In such vignettes, we see the bishops as priests responding to the spiritual longings of their people.
This is why I wrote my novel, at least in part: to ridicule the secular distortion of what was once a genuine spiritual longing.
His search for people still in a state of grace with nature has every element of an intense spiritual longing.
But these concerns were quickly overridden by Tsion's spiritual longings.
The church eased spiritual longings and provided both a good education and a profession.
Silvius sees love as something poetic and marriage as the fulfillment of a great spiritual longing.