Sentence examples for devoted himself to creating from inspiring English sources

In a movie – and there have been several based on this story – Chess would have instantly seen the light and devoted himself to creating further blues masterpieces.

He began to reëxamine his idea that art was apolitical after a 1960 trip to Cuba, where he met the poet Nicolás Guillén and attended a massive Fidel Castro rally, but it was not until after the assassination of Malcolm X, five years later, that Baraka fully devoted himself to creating a black-nationalist aesthetic.

Weeks was also a mechanical engineer, and he devoted himself to creating his own putter, which took into account the physics involved in the roll of a dimpled ball on the surface of a green.

For a long time, he devotes himself to creating the tentative steps, the awkwardness and hesitations.

Mr. Hess, who has built boards since he was a teenager, left his job as a building contractor to devote himself to creating environmentally friendly and long-lasting surfboards.

Some may mock the idea that Mr. Nuovo relocated his soul by devoting himself to creating status symbols for the world's richest people.

Foley considers these far beneath his talents and would rather devote himself to creating a portfolio of cherub lamps that will enable him "before long to escape from his servitude to the pixies and the wheel of seasons, into prosperity and enhanced status".

Last October, in a speech at the Citadel, he promised that he would never "wave the white flag of surrender" but, rather, devote himself to creating "an American Century".

Mr. Herman, a Brooklyn resident, devoted himself to saving and creating manufacturing jobs, whether as president of the Garment Industry Development Corporation, a labor-management partnership, or as New York State's deputy labor commissioner.

For the next 15 months he devoted himself to the task of creating a united military organization in western Europe to be a defense against the possibility of communist aggression.

Shortly after that, M. Duchamp stopped creating art altogether and devoted himself to chess.