Other men can be better at looking devoutly across the stage at her, as if she were the object of their love, but Mr. Askegard is the one whose devotion works best in practical terms, the best known among ballerinas for spotting possible trouble before they themselves do, and for being the safety net in whose sure hands they can never fall.
The devotion worked for him, and it worked for his family.
extreme devotion to work (choosing work over friends or family etc).. lack of flexibility and generosity.
First up is Ms. Michelson, who has been in residence working on "Devotion Study #1 — The American Dancer," a luminous paring-down of ideas from her 2011 opus, "Devotion".
The qualities rewarded there - self-reliance, ambition, single-minded devotion to work - make women unfit for marriage and vice versa.
Finally, there was more compulsive PD in the managers, including perfectionism, excessive devotion to work, rigidity, stubbornness and dictatorial tendencies.
If devotion to work leads to long hours, including unpaid overtime, then even the most committed worker may confront problems of burnout and physical ill health.
With the erosion of the postwar compact that traded a slavish devotion to work for stable wages and benefits, many young people felt alienated.
There's certainly a kind of steadfast devotion at work there, but I think it's a devotion to an antiquated sense of duty more than anything else.
The root causes, he says, were traits inherited from his father, namely a pursuit of perfectionism and "obsessive devotion to work" at the expense of family.
