Sentence examples for devoted himself wholly to from inspiring English sources

Having also produced the series Maigret (1993) with Michael Gambon, Wokenwell (1997) and Plastic Man (1999), all for ITV, Marcus devoted himself wholly to directing.

Late in life -- he lived to be 90 -- Wren grumpily referred to his architectural creations as "rubbish," implying that he would have been wiser, and wealthier, had he devoted himself wholly to scientific and medical research.

Despite his father's wishes, he wanted to devote himself wholly to literature, and he frequented the Temple, then the centre of free-thinking society.

On trips abroad for the foundation, he devotes himself wholly to AIDS, but, one of his advisers said, "when we're home, we only use him when we need to".

It has also been said that Demosthenes paid Isaeus 10,000 drachmae (somewhat over 1.5 talents) on the condition that Isaeus should withdraw from a school of Rhetoric which he had opened, and should devote himself wholly to Demosthenes, his new pupil.

He devoted himself entirely to religious practices.

After building up its declining circulation, she left in 1912 to devote herself wholly to writing novels.

After 1868 Lenbach devoted himself to portraiture.

Later he devoted himself to painting.

Shackleton devoted himself to a worthy goal.

He immediately devoted himself to research.