We've both managed to be successful while maintaining a philanthropic side and giving pleasure to huge numbers of people, and both inspire a sort of slavish devotion.
It lends a sort of Stepford devotion to the more earnestly romantic songs, like "Religion" and "Music To Watch Boys By", while prickles of danger are raised by the darker emotions: all it takes, in the separation ode "The Blackest Day", is an offhand mention of a gun to spark the suspicion that, despite the bland delivery, this is an obsession teetering on the edge of either suicide or homicide.
This dancehall reggae star turned pop star inspires a curious sort of devotion: people seem to love his songs more than they love him.
"Out 1" is filled with the tangles of group dynamics and nostalgia for a time of concerted action undertaken by group members whose mutual loyalty and fierce commitment went beyond mere friendship to a sort of fanatical, cultlike devotion.
In my family it's a sort of minor Sunday devotion, with an attendant after-dinner ritual of rummaging for the special cups, worrying the cream and carefully staging the whole vertical assembly.
Zuck does however give Keen "the creeps," mostly because he has a sort of child-like devotion to his concept of identity.
What history?Sep 27th 2007 The politics of a bank run: Labour's moment of perilSep 20th 2007This will hurt you more than it hurts meWho Mr Brown is, say his ministers now exhibiting the sort of devotion that only an 11-point poll lead can inspire is, first, a proven administrator.
Soloist, orchestra, and conductor all performed with the sort of devotion that can still make a symphony concert of the conventional type an exciting event.
Shakespeare's work, he assures us from the start, is a love object worthy of rapt, minute devotion — the sort of devotion that courtly sonneteers paid to their mistresses' alabaster bosoms, and to every charmed blemish to be found thereon.
