Sentence examples for Intellectual devotion from inspiring English sources
The drones article cited his intellectual devotion to St. Augustine and the priestly qualities of his counterterrorism adviser: that seemed a bit much.
In the same issue of Cahiers, Godard also defined the New Wave in terms of its intellectual devotion to the history of cinema, but he characterized the group's critical orientation as "regret, nostalgia for the cinema that no longer exists.
Kazin was lavish in his praise of Schwartz, describing him as a figure of "immense intellectual devotion" whose poems "astonished everyone by being impeccably, formally right in the prevailing Eliot tradition emotional ingenuity tuned to perfect pitch by gravity of manner".
Particularly important are what Descartes calls "intellectual" or "internal emotions," such as the intellectual devotion felt when contemplating the idea of the true God, or the sadness that stems from reflecting on my errors.
His intellectual devotion to democracy supported his visceral passion for justice.
York's shown a similar intellectual devotion - not to Obama's merits or Palin's mistakes specifically, of course, but to being an independent thinker.
Your life was rich with adventure, intellectual pursuits, devotion to family.
His intellectual honesty, devotion to and care of his people was a life lesson to his children, grandchildren and thousands in the community.
These sites of folk devotion, which were dear to his predecessor, speak to a more ground-up spirituality that has sometimes seemed at odds with his own intellectual strain.
For a man of his intellectual distinction, and devotion to Harvard's thriving as a centre of excellence, to be hounded out in this way would be one of the blackest acts in the history of the university.
It may be precisely the latter's neoclassicism his intellectual and emotional devotion to classic Hollywood, and not his "Italian heritage"—that gets in the way of the thoroughgoing artistic self-reinvention for which his changed circumstances clear the ground.
