Last May, Damon professed his devotion to the Red Sox, or at least his distaste for the Yankees.
The movie is a Latino-Anglo solidarity pact: for all the cultural differences and bantering, the two men share a single-minded devotion to keeping order — or, at least, controlling disorder.
Julie Bishop has signalled an overhaul of Australia's foreign aid program, including a larger role for the private sector and the devotion of at least one-fifth of the budget to increase economic growth in developing countries through "aid for trade".
Björk didn't need to open her mouth to inspire wild cheers of devotion — and at least one shout of "I love you!" — from the capacity crowd gathered to see her perform Tuesday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
And even if folks understand that he came to New York in devotion to the game itself — or at least in service of his need to play it — rather than out of some mercenary impulse toward money or fame, New Yorkers prefer stars they create to stars thrust upon them.
The plentiful recent books that preach hacking as a way of life — "Reality Hacking," "Hacking Your Education," "Hacking Happiness" — express devotion at least to the rhetoric of revolt.
The plentiful recent books that preach hacking as a way of life—"Reality Hacking," "Hacking Your Education," "Hacking Happiness"—express devotion at least to the rhetoric of revolt.
But they love with a passionate devotion (at least, that's what the picture implies), even though he is marked for Nazi greatness and she is doomed to be sterilized.
But it's still possible to see that devotion, at least in part, as a principled stance; to see J. D. Salinger as a kind of conscientious objector to the Publicity Industrial Complex that commodifies writers' lives and turns them into commercial surrogates for their work.
There is an insane amount of Star Wars merchandise out there – display your devotion to the Star Wars universe to the world (or at least your minor obsession)!
