At the other extreme was the alley's bartender, Peter Napolitano, who has been there for nearly 20 years and draws devoted regulars, many of whom seemed uninterested in the action on the lanes.
These shows don't attract large audiences but they draw devoted ones, made up, presumably, of late bloomers who indulge a giddy repulsion in thoughts of their 15-year-old selves.
"Sleeping Beauty" is a demanding full-length 19th-century ballet that is a calling card for companies, drawing devoted and marginal ballet fans while filling theaters and generating revenue.
Unsurprisingly, they draw devoted, noisy crowds whenever they play, while some of world curling's male players have featured in their own racy calendar.
Such offhand conjurings — a Johns-like target in the drawing devoted to the astronauts for example — seem to say that anything you can do, I can do easier.
What will draw the devoted is the sheer size of the game, the pin-sharp visuals of the new dungeon settings and the ever-present challenge to catch 'em all, – enough to keep even expert players entertained for weeks.
They read the sociologists as arguing that a principled distinction between evidential and nonevidential considerations cannot be drawn and devote considerable effort to refuting those arguments.
Both national Republican and Democratic Parties, recognizing that the first competitive House race of the 2004 campaign cycle would draw significant attention, devoted substantial resources to the race.
Over 30 years and nearly as many albums, Arizona songwriter Howe Gelb has walked a singular path, one that has drawn a cultish following devoted to his guitar- and piano-based wanderings.
Next's computer hardware and software were filled with innovations that drew a small, but devoted, following.
