Thanks to the devotion of two "young" fans, Lloyd and Susan Ecker, who talked the New York Public Library into giving them access to Tucker's 400 scrapbooks, Sophie Tucker's amazing story is now being told.
The theme is timeless and universal: the devotion of two people who love each other through thick and thin, complicated in this case by the wayward personality of the man, who cannot fulfill the responsibilities he has assumed.... Billy is a bum, but Carousel recognizes the decency of his motives and admires his independence.
But that was because of a happenstance confluence of religion, the birth of a nation and the obsessive devotion of one man, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who settled in Palestine and insisted on speaking only Hebrew to all Jews.
You might also perform a brief ritual of devotion to one of your deities, speaking to them about problems you're having or giving thanks for blessings in your life.
An abolitionist, Delano was nonetheless impressed by the apparent devotion of the two slaves, father and son, who refused to be separated for a moment from their master.
"To Remain Here at the Applebee's Bar" tells the tale of a fraught love triangle that tests the devotion of our three heroes.
Some critics' perceptions were dominated by their devotion to one kind of art e.g., Nicolas Calas, who tracked Surrealism through all its contemporary permutations.
… Indeed, the financial pressure and devotion of time to two children are quite costly … but my mother kept trying to talk to us about it, that having only one child is not good for the child, we are going to die one day, and when it happens MM (referring to the eldest son) will have no one in this world to care about him.
The love of family and other kinds of love, the love of humanity and one's own vanity, the devotion to one's children and other kinds of devotion, clash tragically here, too.
May it not also be that the cause of civilisation itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen?
Apparently, the church of Rome can molest altar boys and peddle abducted infants as much as it likes; today, replete with its bling bishops and pernicious social edicts, it still enjoys the devotion of over a billion satisfied adherents in places from Manila to Montreal and Madrid to Montevideo.
