Sumardjo describes the novel as an ode to njais, citing Marsiti's loyalty to Aij Tjeng and her pureness of purpose; Marsiti is ultimately recognised for her devotion when her grave in Cikembang is moved to Batavia, with empty spaces on either side for Aij Tjeng and Gwat Nio.
Not only was marriage "the grave of spontaneity"; it also eroded "humanitary devotion," by focusing couples excessively on each other.
This article is dedicated to the memory of late Arina N. Savchenko, the young chemist with exemplary devotion to science despite the long grave illness.
Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.
Devotion to the 1st Amendment should also provoke grave concerns about Thiel's open-checkbook funding of Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.
An awareness of transience lies at the heart of all devotion, and it finds an apt emblem in these grave markers, bent and tattered by the wind.
Ronnie and Reggie Kray borrowed heavily from mafia symbology with their dapper suits, their insistence on loyalty and their devotion to their ol' mom who went to her grave thinking her boys were a couple of angels.
As a final act of love and devotion, Tom plants a tree seed at Izzi's grave in the manner of a story she told him relating how a Mayan guide's dead father lived on in a tree nourished by the organic nutrients of the buried body.
Abraham Lincoln knew what he was doing at the graves of the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg when he vowed "increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion", rather than "increased devotion to that cause which they gave the last full measure of devotion for".
Best of British Flickers from beyond the grave Derek Jarman's cinematic reputation has been in the doldrums for so long that the devotion he once inspired now seems baffling.
It means "total devotion".
