Though the series lasted only 15 episodes, there are those who followed it with a certain devotion, and presumably they have been bereaved by its absence ever since.
It takes a certain stubborn devotion to play cricket in Malekutu, an isolated rural village in the hills not far from South Africa's border with Mozambique.
Indeed, the letters show an enormous dedication to research, and a certain single-minded devotion to advancement of his theory of evolution and to work out its details and implications for moral and religious life.
It is characteristic of militants here that a devotion to family and a certain apparent tenderness of spirit go hand in hand with a fascination with death and a willingness to cause it.
His "antidote to the failures of urban education" is teachers with "SNAP," or "a certain quick twitch in their bodies, an urgency in their voices, and a devotion to pursuing a measurable end goal".
Be that as it may, perhaps because of a certain communal (and parental) devotion to what is lovingly called the "Yiddishe kup" — the Jewish brain — varsity football has not been the favorite athletic expression of Zionism in America.
A death fast requires a devotion to the cause.
A far cry from a devotion to homemaking.
Again, from "The Republic": "Have you noticed how a lifelong devotion to physical exercise, to the exclusion of anything else, produces a certain type of mind?
The theme, summarized bluntly by Fitzgerald, who has a professional devotion to canned wisdom, is that people try as hard as they can even though no one is really certain of anything.
