Sentence examples for devotion to parents from inspiring English sources

He regards devotion to parents and older siblings as the most basic form of promoting the interests of others before one's own.

Dai and Diamond observed in the 1990s that, compared to American culture, which regarded limited responsibility from children to parents as the norm, Chinese culture encouraged unlimited responsibility and devotion to parents or family (1998).

Does having many children signal a greater devotion to parenting?

The saddest thing may be what appears to be her unquestioning devotion to her parents.

Both recalled fathers who were coaches, and they expressed a devotion to their parents.

There were the years when I also needed to atone for my imperfect devotion to my parents, who were growing older and more fragile.

Yet at root we fought because the issue rubbed a weak point in our marriage, in our monogamy: I didn't want to see my devotion to my parents as an infidelity to Dan.

Mr. Berri's early work as a director included several comedies in which he played himself or someone very much like him: a character, often named Claude, with a sentimental devotion to his parents and a goofy, Chaplin-esque weakness for women.

The film opens with James' father's wake, introducing us to a restless New Yorker who can't find steady work and flakes out constantly, yet has the deepest sense of devotion to his deteriorating parent.

When I have my own children, I will mimic my parents' devotion to education.

Throughout the book, Hanagarne gets terrific comic mileage out of the disparity between his parents' devotion to the L.D.S. Church.