It's not all empty chairs, of course; there are also rooms filled with eager auditors whose devotion to a certain idea of reading is enough to restore any author's morale.
Instead, they were eager to discuss her devotion to her Tibetan heritage and the final moments of her life.
He also worked during religious festivals at local temples, piercing the tongues and eyelids and stomachs of pilgrims eager to prove their devotion.
The movie has a slightly threadbare but eager pleasantness about it — a devotion to youth, dreaminess, ambition, and freedom, which means, in practice, endless hanging out, drinking, doping, talking passionately but aimlessly, and falling in and out of bed.
Eager to turn California's devotion to gasoline into income for his work, Mr. Robertson chose Mr. Happy to run the refinery, only to replace him last November after a federal district court in Los Angeles issued what turned into a disabling decision.
Her sense of humor was expressed in her correspondents' eager attempts to appeal to it, her devotion in their expressions of gratitude to her and concern for her.
Say what you will about their unyielding ignorance, blind devotion, and shitty museums, but like an eager virgin on prom night, they never ever seem to give up.
But by dint of his personality, which runs toward focused introversion and a consuming devotion to craft, he hasn't been too eager to pursue the profile of a frontman.
You had to be impressed by the devotion of Mahler lovers on Sunday afternoon, when an eager audience packed Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater for an unusual program presented by Lincoln Center's White Light Festival and the New York Philharmonic.
Their competition was abetted by the wealthy guilds, eager to outdo one another in expressions of civic pride and religious devotion.
