"He combined remarkable business acumen with a deep and emotional devotion to the art of the theater".
And yet, she still gets "the prize": the man of her dreams, his emotional devotion and all the money she was prepared to forgo.
It may be precisely the latter's neoclassicism his intellectual and emotional devotion to classic Hollywood, and not his "Italian heritage"—that gets in the way of the thoroughgoing artistic self-reinvention for which his changed circumstances clear the ground.
The references in some of the song's lyrics, including the swimming and drawing a line, "are all metaphorical slants on the extent of his emotional devotion".
I do know that anything that dims one's emotional authenticity ( and devotion to a world of wish and image definitely siphons off emotional energy) makes one seem less vivid, less emotionally real.
Instead, beginning with the indelible third episode — titled "Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes" — the show dove into startling existential depths, combining surrealism with a devotion to emotional continuity.
Instead, beginning with the indelible third episode titled "Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes"—the show dove into startling existential depths, combining surrealism with a devotion to emotional continuity.
In "Middlemarch," George Eliot limned the futility of vast totalizing projects, and in Mr. Casaubon, with his emotional illiteracy and blinkered devotion to an impossible "Key to All Mythologies," she created one of literature's first cases of Asperger's syndrome.
Certain practicalities get in the way of sex (children awakening at night or cuddling between them in bed), other practicalities get in the way of desire itself (the myriad demands on their attention prove distracting), and what seems comical is the very idea of these life partners, despite their apparent emotional intimacy and mutual devotion to their family, getting physically intimate at all.
The two were tending electronically to their demanding jobs, but they were also instant messaging each other, obviously on the same emotional "bandwidth" in their devotion to both career and marriage.
Devotion, respect, emotional consistency -- qualities we often associated with a "jerk" in the past -- are to be cherished now (Why did we ever think "playing hard to get" had anything to do with intimacy?).
