Sentence examples for complex devotion from inspiring English sources
(One provocative exception: his description of Condoleezza Rice, whose charm, "sheer delight in the elegance of power" and "complex devotion to the president and his family fused in a conscience deeply formed by racial insult and injury," and made for "the kind of character she has read about in the pages of her favorite Dostoyevsky").
The complex and perplexing devotion of his wife is reduced to her supposed ambition and power-seeking.
He was criticized in many quarters for his intense devotion to complex modernist composers like Elliott Carter, Charles Wuorinen and Milton Babbitt.
The deep legacy of a shepherd, with its complex rituals, formulae and devotions, hid a very different religiousness, unique and yet profoundly orthodox but, which basically offered a transcendental meaning, linked to this close connection with nature.
Ms. Buechner's program is a small revelation and a vindication of her devotion to Friml, a more complex figure than I had imagined.
The notion of a Snuggie (emblem of the silliness of U.S. commercialism) as a gateway to wearing a burka (emblem of hard-core religious devotion) is an inspired, deceptively complex, Sarah Silverman-esque bit of cultural criticism.
His religion and his complex, critical relationship to it in which early devotion gave way to a deep agnosticism that was yet indebted to the symbolism and structures of Catholicism remained a central preoccupation.
The increasingly complex choreography became a sign of the increased devotion of the worshipers being depicted.
Vice President Al Gore commemorated the nation's war dead today by recounting his own military experiences in Vietnam and the complex web of emotions, from patriotism to family devotion to guilt, that caused him to enlist three decades ago.
She is complex to the max but also simple in her devotion to her family and to her job.
Its complex vocalization and rhythms incorporated the rituals of Islamic devotion many of them had to leave behind.
