The project of analysing your own sporting devotion can itself, of course, be interpreted as a homage to the 90s.
Theistic devotion presents itself as an easy path, obliterating the need for expensive sacrificial rituals, difficult ascetic practices, and scriptural knowledge.
The plural is culture; the unifier is the political system itself: devotion to the Constitution, to the rule of law, to the exercise of the rights that it guarantees, and to the responsibilities and protections that it affirms.
Many of Kovarsky's wordless wonders had to do with art: Eventually, Kovarsky's devotion to art itself became greater than his interest in cartooning, and he became a full-time painter.
There is a similar sense of devotion in "Holy Ghost" itself.
Each book was clearly an act of devotion, like the transcreation itself.
If the house inspired design aficionados while still on paper, it brought about more than a few extraordinary feats of communal devotion at the site itself.
In other words, total devotion to the craft itself, not the slightest degree of affectation, a complete humility in his work.
This one may be about matters more divine (there's one explicit mention of prayer), unless it's just Gray's way of reiterating her devotion for "Talking Book" itself.
This time, the search for the North Pole was "a challenge to human daring," those who conducted it were men of "indomitable pluck, wonderful self-abnegation, and devotion," and the Arctic itself was "a training school for all that was high and godlike in man".
