He asks big questions: for example, is it possible to devote a life to passions misspent, climbing, as it were, the wrong mountain?
For example, society could resolve to devote far greater resources to the education of children of poor and uneducated parents than to the education of other children.
For me, for example, it is important to devote quality time to teaching, comment on colleagues' works in progress, and regularly engage in collaborative writing.
For example, though we are to devote more resources to ourselves than to distant strangers, there is to be no difference in the strength of our care (ai) for ourselves and for them (EC10).
During tax season for example I was able to devote a portion of my tax return to my student loan.
For example, you might want to devote 5 to 10 hours of prep time for a 5-minute speech.
It's a part, all 1,500 lines of it, which he calls "the most demanding experience I've ever had physically and emotionally," and it's the best example of why he decided to devote so much of his recent time to theater.
A fascinating example, to which Haskell devotes a chapter, is the exhibition of Italian masterworks put on in England in 1930, organized by Ivy, Lady Chamberlain, wife of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the foreign minister in the Conservative government.
Other areas of work used to be exempt from this kind of talk; my father, for example, was devoted to his work but would never have announced a passionate belief in his lathe or lathes generally.
Early group shows were devoted, for example, to Bernard Leach and his circle, and to contemporary Danish potters, many of whom then exhibited with her independently.
