Close attention is devoted not just to scholarly and research matters but to pedagogical skills.
Hilton Als's "The Women" (1996) is devoted not just to women, but to the "Negress" — the word his Barbadian-born mother used to describe herself.
Much of the show is devoted not just to West's own works but also to the arrangements he made both of them and the paintings, drawings and sculptures he swopped with other artists.
Those minutes were devoted not just to recycling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bosnian sniper fire and another lame question about a possible "dream ticket" but to the unseemly number of intrusive commercials and network promos that prompted the jeering at the end.
With each episode devoted not just to a separate quest but also to a different musical genre — 80 so far, including Irish jig, King Oliver jazz, funk, bossa nova, township jive, Kenyan high life, tarantella, psychedelic soul, countrypolitan — the show blows you away with its artistic exactitude.
And to reflect the fact that it is devoted not just to the quaint and antique but to utilitarian uses of wood to meet today's needs, we now sweep up leaves and debris with our new and supremely efficient besom bought from the broomsquire.
As institutions devoted not just to the transmission of knowledge but to the generation of new ideas, universities are inherently places of exploration, debate, dissent, and, sometimes, protest.
The background: It's been a good year for shoegaze: Slowdive reformed and got the props they deserved after years of being derided as the runts of the noisepop litter, while whole websites appeared devoted to not just the historical stuff but celebrating the great new music being made under the banner of fuzz-haze (to coin a new term) right now.
Almost every major retailer, from grocery chains to investment banks to the U.S. Postal Service, has a "predictive analytics" department devoted to understanding not just consumers' shopping habits but also their personal habits, so as to more efficiently market to them.
Legal experts say litigation financing has become more prevalent in recent years with the proliferation of companies devoted to helping not just lawyers and law firms, but also individual plaintiffs, while they await resolution of cases.
