Sentence examples for father's devotion from inspiring English sources

Thorn, who is fifty, was raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, and has spent most of his life there, but, having inherited his father's devotion to a cause, he's constantly on the road, performing three or four times a week around the country.

Carter's children each made light-hearted reference to his father's devotion to cleanliness.

But he also absorbed the lesson of his father's devotion to community service.

Mr. Raven has said that his father's devotion to Meshie at the expense of his family caused great heartache.

His daughter seems to see nothing but neurosis and eccentricity in her father's devotion to silence and privacy.

That love and her father's devotion were recollections that cheered Miss Nightingale's current solitude and somehow gave a shape to her life.

The father's devotions are both erotic and pedagogic; the student's attractions are both submissive and domineering; the daughter's attitudes are both servile and rebellious.

From these stories, and the story of Father Damien's devotion to his adopted people, Ms. Erdrich has woven an imperfect but deeply affecting narrative and in doing so filled out the history of that postage-stamp-size world in Ojibwe country that she has delineated with such fervor and fidelity in half a dozen novels.

The wonder in all this is that Alec did not recoil from his father's obsessive devotion.

Unlike the elder Kim, her life story has acquired a fable-like quality, familiar now to a global audience as one of a father's loving devotion.

Having initially shared his mother's disdain for a man who seemed boring and, by Silicon Valley standards, unsuccessful, he comes to respect and even celebrate his father's quiet devotion.