Sentence examples for degrees of devotion from inspiring English sources

But the pair reconciled in 1645, and she gave birth to four children, including three daughters who grew to adulthood, two of whom appear in a number of illustrations here reading, with varied degrees of devotion, to their difficult, blind father.

All these texts, you can't help noticing, are in their way not unlike Mr. Portis's books in the degree of devotion and enthusiasm they evoke in their readers.

The project suggests the degree of devotion to brand and corporate history at Coca-Cola, which was one of the first companies to hire its own corporate archivist and last year donated five decades of television commercials to the Library of Congress.

Enamel lacks the intrinsic value of gold and diamonds, but among connoisseurs, glass melted onto the surface of another substance can inspire the same degree of devotion as an Old Master painting.

A similar degree of devotion can be inspired by Sichuanese cuisine, which lands on the unsuspecting tongue like the kiss of a fierce lover; you might have conceived of the encounter as a forgettable fling, but it leaves you gasping for air — in thrall to its numbing, tingling fervor and possibly besotted for life.

Such issues as the distribution of assets among heirs and charitable bequests can be a source of passionate disagreement within a family, especially one with varying degrees of religious devotion.

Challenge their level of devotion.

However this does call for a certain level of devotion.

All this gives a quaint air to their declaration, in the book's first chapter, that "America peacefully combines a high degree of religious devotion with tremendous religious diversity".

American statesmen with Dartmouth degrees have a history of devotion to their alma mater.

"We felt that degree of commitment and devotion had to make a difference, and the shock of what happened in the 1984 elections left us reeling".