The phrase "devotion about" is not grammatically correct.
It is missing a preposition and does not form a complete phrase. It is not commonly used in written English. Example: Incorrect - "Her devotion about the cause was admirable." Correct - "Her devotion to the cause was admirable."
For the biggest stars, this means a kind of devotion about which a Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts could only dream.
Then maybe you don't know quite what to think, about politics and devotion, about patriotism tangled with nationalism, about old buried secrets still unrevealed.
So more than honourable mentions to Anietie Isong's "Devotion", about a Nigerian mother having to prostitute herself to secure the release of her rebel son, and to Nick Walker's "Old School Entertainment", a surrealistic take on an escapologist's outrageous performances.
It's a noble idea, and while I'm not saying that the family don't ever think about the financial side of their operation, it's incredibly refreshing in this age of churn and burn events, to hear people speak with such devotion about the simple desire to throw a really fucking great party.
While she obsessed about meeting Flaubert's mother, pined for his devotion, griped about his ingratitude, schemed to arouse his jealousy, bristled at his insistence on coitus interruptus, and sent him a lock of Chateaubriand's hair, he toyed with her feelings in immortal epistolary prose laced with quite a bit of infantile whining.
Although Sade has become synonymous with dreamy, upscale seduction, heartbreak outnumbered devotion by about two to one in her concert set.
By this point on "New Amerykah," with all the affiliations you've declared -- about how those that are perceived as niggers need to be called what they really are: master teachers; about your devotion to Farrakhan; about your headnods to Rastafari and Africa -- you can't say you're only entertaining us.
But in this week's Torah reading, Parshat Tzav, we see how devotion is not always about true "sacrifice," about offering big things or making big efforts.
Affection is about devotion and love; clinging is about ownership.
A good number of his contemporaries paid him compliments and spoke about his kindness toward them, about his devotion to their careers, about his loyalty.
11 Burnout is described as "a state of fatigue or frustration brought about by devotion to a cause, way of life, or relationship that fails to produce the expected rewards".
