Chunks of the book are devoted to mind-numbing descriptions of complex banking deals.
Bain founded the first journal devoted to psychology, Mind, in 1876.
Bush, like Reagan, is a man of self-discipline, punctual, diet-conscious, religious about his gym time and a good night's sleep, devoted to simple, mind-clearing outdoor exertion, impatient when meetings dawdle.
By Winthrop Sargeant The New Yorker, July 28 , 1956P. 50 Entire MUSICAL EVENTS devoted to the Teutonic mind and its influence on their music, and review of the Vienna Music Festival.
So many examples from these last few years come to mind: magazine covers devoted to President Nicolas Sarkozy almost every week; the Jan . 7issue of Le Figaro, naming Joan of Arc Woman of the Year.
The essays in "The Reactionary Mind" devoted to individual conservative thinkers and their arguments are often unconvincing as well.
The university, he wrote, should not be a "public utility"; rather it should be a "city of the mind" devoted to the intellectual currents of Western civilization.
You need to have every part of your heart and mind devoted to being an artist.
This appears to be true whether we're privileged enough to occupy a front row seat during fashion week or are straining for a gander from the stadium seats on one of the scores of web sites devoted to this kind of mind numbing distraction from the pressing issues of our days.
The scale of the effort devoted to this can be mind-boggling.
Each lasts 10 days, is delivered by a different academic partner and is devoted to a different management mind-set.
