"The Sea of Trolls" conveys, more vividly than any textbook, the vikings' storied fatalism, their devotion to heroic death and to a savage afterlife in Valhalla.
Nevertherless, I do not give up hope of a prosperous future, convinced that, in every trial, the monarchy will find its sure refuge in the devotion even to death of the Austro-Hungarian forces, which nothing can shake from their loyalty".
She said she liked Pope Francis and planned to watch him on television, but this did nothing to diminish her devotion to the Holy Death. .
It's a little sickening, honestly, and I might need to throw up a few times after first sight, but I'll count their devotion to my horrific death as flattery," Jesus said.
Mr. Critchley is listed as head philosopher of the International Necronautical Society, an avant-garde group whose Web page (necronauts.org) says its central tenet is "inauthenticity" and its purpose is devotion to the study of death, a "space which we intend to map, colonize and eventually inhabit".
Confucian ethics demanded filial devotion to an emperor, good or bad; his death was the death of a father.
By his extraordinary heroism, presence of mind amidst chaos and death, and unselfish devotion to his comrades in the face of great danger, Corporal Meyer reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
A death fast requires a devotion to the cause.
He loved his daughter, "a being more rare, more beautiful, purer and more delicate than the wildest dream of a poet," but she fell ill on a trip around the world and died; he makes a romance of her death, and of his devotion to her.
