Sentence examples for anxious devotion from inspiring English sources
The sermon was by the Roman Catholic cardinal Vincent Nichols, who said Richard was a child of war, who could have known little peace in his short life, but was also "a man of prayer, a man of anxious devotion".
The choreographer whose image looks down upon the dancers and who keeps interfering and who demands acts of devotion is a cruel and anxious god.
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.
As half of the Make-Up, Ian Svenonious and Michelle Mae pledged their devotion to gospel while making a joyless noise; their postpunk soul music sounded anxious and underfed.
It means "total devotion".
This devotion is sincere.
This devotion confuses me.
Leo Bill's Horatio is a stalwart, backpacking chum, Jim Norton makes Polonius an anxious fusspot who even reads out his carefully prepared advice to Laertes, and Sian Brooke is a genuinely disturbed Ophelia, with an equal devotion to Hamlet and the piano.
