Mrs. Forman established an admirable example of devotion to the Jewish community which has been embraced by her entire family.
But "L'Ippolito" survived, and in an admirable display of devotion to a native artistic son, the work was resurrected and performed by Orquestra Barocca Casa da Música, an ensemble from Porto, Portugal, conducted by the early-music authority Laurence Cummings.
The world learned that the most influential person in Vidal's life was Nadia Lopez, his principal at Mott Hall, and, after subsequent HONY posts featuring Lopez, marvelled at her admirable devotion, amid the imagined grayscale of still-ungentrified Brooklyn, to boosting the spirits, and lifting the ambitions, of her students.
Mr. Lewis (an executive producer and director for the television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation"), Mr. Konyves and the producer, Robert Lantos, display admirable patriotism as well as devotion to their source material.
As John Berryman so aptly put it: "Rilke was a jerk". Many writers may be eccentrics, isolatos and obsessives, but they usually retain at least one or two admirable qualities aside from their devotion to art: Think of Joyce's and Nabokov's love of family, Flaubert's stringent work ethic, Zola's political courage, James's kindliness.
While Stacey found her father's devotion to her mother admirable, it was also concerning.
While the Wikipedians' devotion to being unbiased is admirable, as they mature they will learn that "fair" and "true" are two very different things indeed.
These producers' devotion to apples is not just admirable, it's good business, too.
Though the subject matter is diverse, the 50 shows are linked by their devotion to the arcane, often delivered with admirable sobriety but occasionally accompanied with a heaping dose of hype (variations on "the never before seen -- until now!" commentary are not uncommon).
