Sentence examples for culture devoted from inspiring English sources

An effete culture devoted itself to philology, archaism, and preciosity.

This mostly Buddhist people, now ruled by China, is better known today as a deeply spiritual culture devoted to peace.

That family, "Traffic" implies, is not just his own drug-addicted daughter but also a culture devoted to instant gratification and quick-fix pain relief.

It was a culture devoted to escapist fantasies of romance and violence but also increasingly to intense and divisive forms of spirituality.

In the interim, Mr. Henderson stressed that G.M.'s new board was pushing management to speed up decisions on new products and install a culture devoted to pleasing customers.

It would be written in golden letters on the pages of history: how the Cambodian people had returned to the countryside to become pure, agrarian communists, relieved of all private property, free of all ties of family, religion and culture, devoted only to Angkar ("the organisation") and the teachings of Mao and Stalin.

Why?? ADAM GOPNIK: The Franco-American connection is a deep and contradictory one: I think we recognize in each other cultures devoted to ideas of pleasure, and also a common insularity — we think that what happens in our home is all that's really real.

Such longevity is notable amid a dining culture slavishly devoted to the new.

He finds it troubling that a significant part of popular culture is devoted to reinforcing -- even aggravating -- rather primitive angers and fears.

One sequence, of which both Geisels were particularly fond, as illustrative of the serenity of Japanese culture, was devoted to sixteenth-century Japan.

Starting with the invention of "teenagers" in the 1950s, America has created a youth culture so devoted to hedonism that all except our most elite public and private high schools have become a global joke.