Sentence examples for devotion to the work from inspiring English sources

He developed a lifelong devotion to the work of the Salvation Army.

But in the case of Pacino-De Niro-Scorsese, do we have to collude with them in such slavish devotion to the work?

Tennessee Williams showed his devotion to the work of Anton Chekhov in a variety of ways — "The Notebook of Trigorin," a "free adaptation" of "The Seagull," for instance, was one of the last plays that Williams worked on before his death, in 1983.

Mrs. Matter practiced as she preached, spending months, and sometimes years, working on drawings and paintings that usually began as still lifes and evolved into near-abstractions animated by thatched lines that attested to her her devotion to the work of Giacometti and Cézanne.

The group stunningly re-examined the music from Conception Vessel on It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (1984), explored a shared devotion to the work of Monk in Misterioso (1986) and recast standard songs in launching the On Broadway series of recordings that continued with various lineups into Motian's last years.

I would question his devotion to the work of Jean-Paul Riopelle, a Canadian expatriate who has lived in Paris since 1947 and whose monotonous, nature-inspired Abstract Expressionist-style paintings were overexposed in 11 shows at the Matisse gallery from 1955 to 1989.

His devotion to the working classes led to the publication in 1843 of his widely circulated Cracks About the Kirk for Kintra Folk (i.e., "Remarks About the Church for Country Folk").

De Palma's cinephilic devotion, to the works of Hitchcock and others (such as Stanley Kubrick and Michelangelo Antonioni), is conflicted and cautionary he sees movies as a source of hidden truths that risk becoming traps and delusions.

But his maniacal devotion to the showbiz work ethic is undeniable.

"So Many Books, So Little Time" is not a chronicle of her monklike devotion to the great works of literature.

Considering Mr. Goode's devotion to the core works of the classical repertory, it's a bit paradoxical that his record label has a reputation for experimental eclecticism and wide-ranging musical scope, not to mention the sheer unpredictability of what will be released next.