Sentence examples for devote a lifetime from inspiring English sources

People devote a lifetime to the quest".

They can have a barbecue on the rooftop and play a part (albeit briefly) in the quest for which, Williamson wrote, locals "devote a lifetime".

As an academic I know that humanities research tends towards extreme specialisation: if you want to be taken seriously it's best to devote a lifetime's study to one particular period or issue, and I suspect women worry about this more than men.

The perfect steak: It's a simple yet elusive goal that some grill masters devote a lifetime to achieving.

Romer devoted a lifetime of research to the evolution of the vertebrates, with evidence drawn from comparative anatomy, embryology, and particularly paleontology.

Julien, like Manlius, sees the civilization of Europe to which he has devoted a lifetime of study being swept away by a new barbarism, a new plague.

Indeed, he had "devoted a lifetime to trying to show that humour covers morals, just as, by definition, it is part and parcel of pathos, or sadness".

Suddenly they didn't seem so much like violent revolutionaries anymore; they seemed more like old, weary souls who only crave the respect of the community to which they devoted a lifetime.

Its author, Gilbert Waldbauer, professor emeritus of entomology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, has devoted a lifetime to some of the less celebrated varieties of insects in the United States and across the globe.

But it is the photos and stories from Goldblatt's native country, whose scars of violence and oppression he's devoted a lifetime to chronicling, that offer the most riveting testimony.

Ms. Canby, who has devoted a lifetime of research to Iranian studies, said, "This has crystallized a real issue in the field that we have been calling 'Islamic art".' The denial of cultural identity in such a meaningless phrase is deeply resented in those Islamic lands, which have ancient cultures that are considerably longer than any West European nation.