Alcohol was dangerous, given its interactions with his many medications, but he became devoted to a daily cocktail or beer.
Although I enjoyed my time in academia, I soon realised that research is not a soft option and that I wasn't going to succeed unless I became devoted to a single topic, gained a lot of publications to my name, and was prepared to move around the world.
Chess is a closed and perfect world with a clearly-defined and finite set of rules — the opposite of life, and, for those who become devoted to it, a substitute for life, for exactly that reason.
Up to that point, she hadn't given much thought to issues like market-driven accountability, but she had become devoted to the idea of national standards — a basic model for what students should know at the yearly stages of their education.
Still, a certain strain of conscientious parent has become devoted to baby carriers lest Junior suffer detachment prompted by a stroller.
Our lives, as a result, can become devoted to more valuable and creative activities, such as new or improved goods and services, art, science and technology.
Like soldiers in combat, the players become devoted to one another, helped immeasurably by Yoast, who is demoted to an assistant coach but decides to get into the spirit of the project.
"If kids become devoted to okonomiyaki when they're young," Matsumoto says, "we will have a customer for life".
My stepmother is a very warm woman and I knew that she would become devoted to the dog but it surprised me that my father would become so smitten.
The print media too have become devoted to football.
