He did a riff about how we devote a moment of silence to the dearly departed, and why there aren't variations on that theme.
I might have been irritated, but when Michael levied a charge at you, it was worth devoting a moment of introspection to see if it was true.
And the Starry One is not necessarily the most talented – Gary Barlow had all the talent in Take That, but after the group split, no one devoted a moment's thought to him for more than a decade.
We can debate the merits of the bill a little later, but I think it's incumbent upon us, as sentient mammals, to devote a moment to a collective wince.
For the moment this talent is devoted, a bit awkwardly, to internecine political combat.
Sometimes she sat on her back porch in the evening and devoted a few moments of her pondering to imagining fates for Jason.
The company also devoted a few moments of stage time to its new simply titled video wearable, Goggles.
"Is a work of art worth a man's life?" asks Clooney in an abandoned, candle-lit church – just the sort of head-scratcher that jolts them out of their soup at the Rotary club, no doubt, but to anyone who devotes more than a moment's thought to the matter the answer is surely "No, of course not".
So began a made-for-television moment that ESPN devoted a SportsCenter segment to and that boosted De La Rosa's Twitter followers by more than 300.
Putting cynicism aside (for a brief moment), Lively does devote a whole section of Preserve to her philanthropic cause, The Covenant House, an organization fighting trafficking, youth abuse and homelessness.
