Just a few years ago she was working as a backup vocalist for dance producers like SBTRKT; now, after "Devotion" landed on a number of 2012 best-of lists, Ms. Ware is poised to become the latest in a string of soul-oriented British singers, from Amy Winehouse to Adele, to find a stateside audience.
There's certainly a kind of steadfast devotion at work there, but I think it's a devotion to an antiquated sense of duty more than anything else.
The sheer number of guests reminds listeners of his devotion to a purist underground that he has long since outgrown.
In the late seventies, a man named Frank William Menge appeared on the scene professing devotion to Falwell and offering him a number of harebrained schemes.
Participation in disinterested activities represents the ethical value of "devotion to a cause".
From the second century A.D. well into the 1800s, "addiction" described a disposition toward any number of obsessive behaviors, like excessive reading and writing or slavish devotion to a hobby.
A docudrama whose script by Gregory Goodell is "based" on real events, "My Brother's Keeper" centers on devotion--a family's and community's devotion to a gay man facing a grim future because of having AIDS.
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.
Furthermore, a significant number of Catholics practice some sort of religious syncretism, mainly with esoteric and African creeds, besides a large number of people who consider themselves "non-practitioners" participating in some rituals, such as a wedding or baptism, but not attending church regularly or evincing special devotion to a saint, for example (Almeida and Montero 2001).
A devotion to classical Greek drama prompted Mr. Cacoyannis to film and stage a number of plays by Euripides and Aristophanes, beginning in 1963 with a stage production in New York of "The Trojan Women," Euripides' antiwar play.
