You may feel devotion to someone because you enjoy his or her company.
The agonised death of the old Prioress (fiercely sung by Deborah Polaski), full of dread after a life of devotion, felt less tormented than usual.
But Devotion felt like the striking of a deal that made everyone a winner, Ware transformed herself into glamorous futuro-soul singer, while setting the trend for pop's high street.
Though she does not deny the genuine devotion felt, and practiced, by many of these families, Safer worries about the damage that can be done by false scenarios parents invent, consciously or unconsciously, to cope with the presence of difficult children.
Particularly important are what Descartes calls "intellectual" or "internal emotions," such as the intellectual devotion felt when contemplating the idea of the true God, or the sadness that stems from reflecting on my errors.
Margaret: The intensity of his devotion felt a little sudden to me.
It's the same thing my colleagues and I heard when we began working with ICU nurses at the Cleveland Clinic, who worked 12-hour shifts, felt a passionate devotion to their patients, but sometimes didn't have a chance to sit down or eat during their entire shift.
Rightly, he felt it belittled his devotion to the poetic craft and made him over-solemn.
My allegiance was purely tribal – no different in kind or quantity from the devotion I felt for Sheffield Wednesday and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
Only by learning to use the tools De Vos provided, and by working with such an energetic and intellectually demanding individual, could one fully understand the integrative complexity of his scientific genius, the global scope of his vision and agenda, and the affection and devotion still felt for him by those from whom he has now departed.
