Sentence examples for devotion to a job from inspiring English sources

Aspiration is represented most clearly here neither in John's competent set designs nor in Ricky's dutiful devotion to a job she's come to hate.

But the play also says something painfully true about resistance to change and the naive belief that a lifetime's devotion to a job implies a meaningful legacy.

He has a job at a treatment center for disturbed and disabled patients, a new love (Holly Hunter) and a voyeuristic devotion to a Mennonite housewife.

Another was a Conservative manifesto that has no historical equivalent in its devotion to a single, dominating theme (that of empowering society at the expense of the state, an idea voters agonising over jobs and wages have found esoteric).

David's devotion to a mitzvah saved his life.

"Life is devotion to an idea".

"A devotion to an absence".

So how much devotion to the job is "normal" for a founder?

In 2015, The New York Times published an explosive exposé detailing a Hobbesian work culture where employees are pushed to work 24/7 for bosses who expect a quasi-religious devotion to the job.

But he displayed an almost monkish devotion to the job, until he gradually found his place as the guy who was always willing to help out, speaking in frenetic bursts, saying, "Yes, sir," and "Negative K, sir," and answering the phone with the refrain: "Firefighter Kevin Shea.

The green double-decker spent more hours in the garage than out of it, and Stan spent more time eating tea with his dysfunctional family or hanging out with his mate Jack, a randy conductor with an eye for the birds; but he often supped his stew still dressed in his bus-driver's jacket with its shiny badge, a token of his devotion to his job.