He speaks openly of his artistic "homelessness" and of finding his place only in the scores to which he devotes himself with missionary fervor.
For the past year, Mr. Wilson has devoted himself with the single-mindedness of a college-age groupie to following Mr. Romney around the country in decidedly conspicuous style: driving a pickup truck festooned with 27 giant Romney for President posters.
From day one of his leadership he devoted himself, with ruthless determination, exhilarating panache and frenetic energy, to the creation of a new social coalition to replace the Thatcher coalition that had transformed British politics in the 80s.
Mr. Wilson, an anti-Obama Republican and former life insurance salesman, had devoted himself with the single-mindedness of a college-age groupie to following Mr. Romney around the country in a beat-up 1998 GMC, logging 40,000 miles, visiting 15 states and attending 150 campaign events.
The story of the horndog scientist (Bill Murray) who, failing to seduce a young female subject during an experiment, devotes himself with particular zeal to the needs of a client (Sigourney Weaver) whom he wants to seduce isn't the expression of a director's point of view but, rather, the reflection of the unchallenged and unspoken assumptions of a place, a time, and, above all, a milieu.
(Rüthers 1990; Mehring 2009, 304 436) He devoted himself, with undue enthusiasm, to such tasks as the defence of Hitler's extra-judicial killings of political opponents (PB 227 32) and the purging of German jurisprudence of Jewish influence (Gross 2007; Mehring 2009, 358 80).
The article briefly summarised his lifetime and praised Conroy for "considerable shrewdness, no small knowledge of human nature and a very winning address" as well as "devoting himself with great zeal and assiduity" to members of the Royal Family.
As a journalist who'd been around awhile and witnessed the media's incompetency firsthand, Barrett understood the stakes in the ongoing information war, and that's why he devoted himself with zeal to advocating for Anonymous.
To qualify for his medical degree he was required to prepare an original thesis, and he had devoted himself with increasing vigor during the preceding 3 years to a study of the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of verruga peruana.
Here, despite substantial achievements in prison reform, he had to devote himself principally to coping with a sweeping wave of industrial unrest and violent strikes.
