Meek expertly renders each man's devotion to the task of securing paradise on earth, and exposes the unsettling affinity between the devout servant of God and the cold, calculating murderer.
But a motorcycle requires total devotion to the task of riding.
Words like "no," "can't," and "impossible," are just not in his vocabulary, and when he hears others use them, it only increases his devotion to the task at hand.
Her fierce yet vulnerable devotion to these tasks elevated the piece beyond manic antics.
His devotion to his tasks won him much admiration in Great Britain and he was the hero of a number of literary publications.
They both had a strong love of family, a devotion to the tasks at hand, and they both used personal sacrifice to help make those around them better.
Again, for me it was more of a desire to see Carmel and Monterey after almost two decades in its best 'elegance' mode, while my husband showed a serious fan attitude and brought a carload of various semi professional looking cameras -- which made me both smirk and wish he brought that same kind of devotion to the tasks of everyday married life..
His work benefited all humanity, and we will especially miss his tireless leadership, his humor, and his devotion to the singular task of saving human lives.
If grit mania really flowers, one can imagine a mass of grimly determined people exhausting themselves and everyone around them with obsessional devotion to semi-worthless tasks—a race of American squares, anxious, compulsive, and constrained.
A penchant for solitude, an absolute devotion to one's tasks, an indifference to external opinion, a fundamental certainty about oneself and one's values (that often strikes others as hubris) — all these are the traits we find, again and again, in artistic geniuses.
Devotion to particular rules can be fanatical.
