Sentence examples for basic devotion from inspiring English sources

When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather's rationale.

This love has more affection to it than basic religious devotion.

For the monks such music is a basic aid to devotion and prayer.

Re "The Justice Americans Demand" (Op-Ed, Feb. 4), by David Frum, on popular support for the death penalty: The success of American institutions does not derive from adherence to "the popular will"; rather, it derives from an unflinching devotion to basic principles of human decency and human rights, including the right to life.

Of course, devotion to basic science alone does not account for the high reputations of companies that made the survey's top 20.

But at its most basic it is about sibling devotion: no pair of brothers or sisters on television is more closely bound — not even the siblings on "Brothers and Sisters".

But for all their devotion, the Riners miss a basic point, said Ms. Stein, the State Assembly's only Jewish member.

Fox's avowed goal is just as ecumenical in spirit: "to keep my ear open to that collective cry for Christ while throwing some light on the basic historical patterns and particularities of Americans' devotion to Jesus".

Furthermore, we hypothesize that in communicating groups, the need to quickly gain a basic understanding of the dynamics overshadows not only the devotion to improve management of the private resource but also the potential tensions brought by the asymmetry in resource access.

He regards devotion to parents and older siblings as the most basic form of promoting the interests of others before one's own.

First, although an obstacle to including self-reflection as worship is the basic definition that worship is "reverence and adoration for a deity", an extended definition includes a "great admiration or devotion shown towards a person or principle".