Sentence examples for devotion to something from inspiring English sources
They differed significantly, however, over the meaning of the public interest and how a devotion to something higher than the self could be achieved.
"I could not give up my life in the struggle, and she could not live with my devotion to something other than herself and her family," he wrote.
"I could not give up my life in the struggle," Mandela explained in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, "and she (Evelyn) could not live with my devotion to something other than herself and her family.
I think the album circles around taking that love or devotion to something that is invisible, like a god, and putting it into someone that is tangible and physical, making it something you can actually feel and touch.
Later, as he became estranged from Mary Shelley, he portrayed even love in terms of aspiration, rather than fulfillment: "The desire of the moth for the star,/ Of the night for the morrow,/ The devotion to something afar/ From the sphere of our sorrow".
One's devotion to something cannot be truly steadfast until it has withstood moments of doubt, for the plain reason that nothing is perfect — everything on earth is vulnerable to outside forces that can divert it from its intended or natural course.
Hence, in part, Hamilton's lifelong devotion to painting, something anathema to hardline Duchampians.
I'm sure that my devotion to these fruits has something to do with how much I love summer and how short the season seems.
Indeed our devotion to that book embodied something quite Flann-esque: feckless students wasting their time by drinking and chatting about a feckless student wasting his time by drinking and chatting, et cetera, et cetera..
And while there is something wishful and secondhand about his devotion to them, there is also something earnest and touching.
Still, if music and words are respected in most productions today, the reason is not just a principled devotion to the masters but also something more pragmatic.
