When visiting, you will notice that not only are citizens of these countries wary of how they speak about their governments, but they also frequently display leaders' pictures to confirm their devotion.
"Like his predecessors, Pope Francis, too, confirms that devotion to the shroud that millions and millions of pilgrims recognise as a sign of the mystery of the passion and death of the Lord," the archbishop said.
It was a conversion experience that confirmed for good my devotion to the art of movies, and it launched me toward the discovery of the Hollywood classics that inspired Godard's film as well as ahead, into the modernity of the art that "Breathless," in turn, inspired.
And while good friends confirm his impressive smarts, sharp and self-deprecating humor and deep-as-a-mine devotion to family, curiously few call him "warm".
Confirm, confirm, confirm.
But still, too often the show confirms the Modern's blind devotion to the wan, cerebral machinations of late-late-late Conceptualism.
The Republicans and Trump are embarked on the opposite course — confirming that the G.O.P.'s devotion to deficit reduction, which in 2011 prompted members of the Party to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, is purely cynical.
As with Wagner, we wonder whether Bess's act confirms or transcends stereotypes of feminine devotion.
This new understanding of mannequins, of inanimate human forms more generally, confirms a need to attend to our own obsessions with, devotion to, and desire for things.
Neihart confirmed what I've been telling my friends for years: that my devotion to all things Degrassi means that I've long had my finger on the pulse of youth culture, even as a 30-something.
The show confirms that great photographer-dealers in the tradition of Alfred Stieglitz are few and far between while also reminding us of the devotion to art and artists that usually guides art dealers to their calling.
