Since this is Churchill speaking through Keaton, it may be the world leader's devotion to language and the masterful manner in which he uses it that comes across most piercingly.
Certainly, her devotion to language and the craft of poetry was central to her identity, but contrary to the prevailing intellectual skepticism of our age, she engaged with her rich religious heritage (her ancestors included a rabbi and a Methodist preacher; her father was a Russian Jew who entered the Anglican priesthood).
With her my strange devotion to the language seems more a vocation than a folly.
Mr. Kahn's devotion to clear language was not just a matter of style.
He has built an empire out of his country's deepening devotion to a language it once derided as the tongue of barbarians and capitalists.
Scholarly devotion to the language, also shown by Catholic exiles such as Gruffydd Robert, was accompanied by new interest in Welsh antiquities, and the work of the 16th-century historians Humphrey Llwyd, David Powel, George Owen, and their successors conserved the heritage of the Middle Ages and laid the foundations of modern historical scholarship.
With the exile's devotion to his own language, he writes in German for translation by Michael Hulse, a poet.
By the time Brodsky returned to Leningrad, he was a mature poet, whose brand of dissidence was an implacable disdain for the Soviet regime and an enduring devotion to the Russian language.
That professional life in Asia, where she worked for a small business called Arrow Electronics, has left her with some far eastern tastes, including a devotion to yoga, and another language.
Abraham Lincoln gave the last full measure of devotion to support-the-troops language 142 years ago, when he called on the nation "to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan". Yesterday, Clinton had this to say of the troops: "They don't have the luxury of passing the buck to somebody else.
In Beyond the Pale Hotel, Block's signature lush language, devotion to style and aesthetic, and love for L.A. permeate the novel.
