Outspoken Christian writers and intellectuals such as Yu Jie and Bei Cun are dedicated believers, but stress their academic identity and have no cultural taboos.
THE ARTS, PAGE E1 Behind a Broadway Smash It took dedicated believers to bring "The Full Monty," apparently the season's first big Broadway hit, from film to stage.
Whether or not he attracts a significant following of dedicated believers in search of deliverance, ecstasy or any variation thereof (some commentators have called the singularity "the rapture for geeks"), Kurzweil has undoubtedly positioned himself at the heart of a growing singularity industry.
Either way, religious pilgrimages are a powerful image of the lengths that dedicated believers will go in order to experience and honor the traditions of their faith.
The epic migration of Smith's followers to Utah produced a people who were at once self-reliant and wary — "a sociological island of fanatic believers dedicated to a creed that the rest of America thought either vicious or mad," the novelist Wallace Stegner, an admirer, wrote of them.
Former colleagues defended Eatinger on Wednesday as a CIA true believer: a dedicated employee who works long hours to assist agency operatives, analysts and top brass, sometimes to a fault.
