With the exile's devotion to his own language, he writes in German for translation by Michael Hulse, a poet.
Losing his father shaped Officer Leahy's devotion to his own family: his childhood sweetheart and wife, Marcela, and his sons, James Jr., 18, Danny, 13, and John, 6.
In a political year in which everyone is suddenly on the side of the people, the unabashed and unapologetic consistency of Mr. Cheney's devotion to his own self-interest is downright refreshing.
Dellarobia's 5-year-old son, Preston, is the child with a future that his mother had hoped for herself: not only beloved but encouraged for his endearingly dweeby and scholarly ways, "set apart by a devotion to his own pursuits that was brave and unconforming".
(His devotion to his own kind even contributed to the death of his daughter last season).
In the words of Dave Eggers, "the architecture of residential San Francisco is about detail, wilful eccentricity, an almost rococo approach to line, and a steadfast devotion to art for its own sake, beauty as its own reward.
The thing is, Ms. Smith suffers from an extreme case of "senseless devotion" to her own cause.
Narrative Challenges Ms. Taymor is known for an energetic devotion to her own ideas, which tend to be visually arresting, not necessarily narratively coherent.
This is how they can be tender with each other". This intensity between mother and son may reflect Guzman's devotion to her own family.
