As devotion to a recreational activity increases with specialization, recreationists' ecological understanding (i.e., mental models) of the resource system is also expected to change.
In Mizoguchi's film, Utamaro gets into trouble for his brazen defiance of artistic tradition and his own original methods, which he discovers not in the fine arts but in popular arts (including his own devotion to a tattoo artist).
Many women are rejecting sindoor, vermilion worn in the hair to signify devotion to a husband.
But against all these qualms, there is a fascinating life, and devotion to a fascinating topic.
In an interview, Porumboiu called his devotion to a man watching and waiting "absurd time".
Obsessive devotion to a television show was still, in general, a relatively new concept.
Cult behavior involves a fervent devotion to a particular person, object, or idea.
"Life is devotion to an idea".
"A devotion to an absence".
His work has been marked by a ferocious devotion to method acting: he took a full year of preparation to play Abraham Lincoln, which is rumoured to have involved speaking only in Lincoln's Kentucky accent and remaining in presidential solitude throughout the shoot.
To demonstrate his devotion to method acting, he puts a knife to a director's throat; he insults fellow actors.
