The hero's own fight scenes can feel restrained, even cramped, perhaps because he devotes a lot of energy to anguishing about violence begetting further violence, and also to fretting that his return to duty will jeopardize a chance to reconcile with his ex-wife.
"I see him getting worn down because he devotes 150percentt of his energy into what he's doing, so it wears him out and when the pain really kicks in, I can't take it away from him, and that's what breaks my heart.
But everyone in the room also knew that Sartre liked the company of women because he devoted much of his time to the business of seducing them.
He did not make a particular success of it because he devoted so much time and effort to Plaid Cymru, becoming president in 1945 and remaining leader until 1981.
He loves Constable, it seems, I suggest, because he devoted his life to those hard-won surprises too? "I think it was about honesty and work and fulfilling his obligations.
Mr. Gottlieb was often described as an old-fashioned producer because he devoted his career largely to championing original scripts, shepherding them step by step from the page to the stage and, when possible, on to the screen.
If so much of Maugham's fiction comes across today as brittle, arch, world-weary and heartless, it may be precisely because he devoted more energy to maintaining his own double standard than he did to interrogating the double standards of others.
It took a while Thursday night to see what Mr. Oramo could do, mainly because he devoted the first half of his program to Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto, in which the orchestra plays an unusually subdued role in the first two movements and doesn't fully edge its way into the spotlight until the finale.
Sanders, for example, sits on a meatball sub because he devoted an entire press event to getting Mrs. Robino's meatballs with Vice President Joe Biden in Burlington, VT.
Garciaparra, whose dislocated wrist tendon was surgically repaired by Morgan four years ago, says Sox players were deeply devoted to Morgan because he was devoted to them.
The team has said Sunkin worked at least 40 hours a week in 2007 "on an annualized basis" and that a majority of his pay that year came from the foundation rather than the team because of the time he devoted to it.
