Hindu goddess

Usage examples of devi.

They had not touched her, but something had snapped, and by the time the bouncer had arrived, Devi was nine again, and screaming.

Christa and Melinda made their way to the back of the store, Devi found herself with the feeling that Christa did indeed understand.

For as Christa powered out a series of odd-sounding scales, lingering over occasional notes in a strange, deliberate pattern, Devi opened her eyes and saw a roiling, turbulent sheet of gray mist where there should have been a wall hung with guitars.

She herself was maintaining her silk-blouse-and-pink-nails persona, just as she had for several other keyboardist auditions, but Devi did not appear to notice such superficialities.

To Jerry she had given the images of tree and river, but Devi seemed to have her own sources of inspiration.

She stabilized it in an instant, and she finished the solo perfectly, but when she looked up at the control-room window again, she saw Devi watching her intently.

Did she have to add Devi Anderson to the list of those who suspected that there was more to Christa Cruitaire than harp and guitar?

Christa was relieved to find that the magic had not been captured on the tape, but she was pointedly aware that Devi was still watching her.

Though she had asked for a ride, Devi seemed tense, watchful, as though Christa might turn into an unexpected threat.

A woman could heal by a word, but she felt that words would be, for Kevin as for Devi, only a beginning.

Lisa was changing the head on her much-hated snare while Devi was helping Monica with her microphone stand.

Christa had offered a hand and had pulled her out of the whirling montage of childhood abuse and bitter images, and it no longer mattered to Devi that what the guitarist had done was founded upon so ephemeral a rock as magic.

Twenty years later, Devi could control the necessary instrumental forces from two keyboards.

Now she came back to it for relaxation, for the savoring of the transformation that allowed her to look back at the nine-year-old girl who was Devi and reassure her that everything would, in the end, be all right.

Thinking back, Devi recalled the rush of power that had enveloped her.