Sentence examples for had ever devoted from inspiring English sources

Three years ago, the Metropolitan Museum presented a show of Calatrava's sculpture and architectural models; it was the largest exhibition the Met had ever devoted to a living architect.

In 1982, at the urging of a young female curator, Deborah Wye, Bourgeois was accorded a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, the first large retrospective that the institution had ever devoted to a woman.

If the elegant (albeit muddy) solution seems obvious now, remember: these cities are 165 miles apart, and, like most cities, neither had ever devoted much time to pondering the other's problem.

The series was given a budget of $100 million £588 million), the largest both HBO and the BBC had ever devoted to a series.

He said that James was regarded as "one of the greatest and most forceful characters who had ever devoted himself to education".

At a dinner in his honour held to mark this award, attended by over 200 friends and former students, he was described by Austen Chamberlain (the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) as "one of the greatest and most forceful characters who had ever devoted himself to education".

In fact only the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has ever devoted an exhibition exclusively to her work, and that was back in 1982.

He dithers until the moment of the baby's birth, as he has dithered about his music, putting more emotional energy into avoiding commitment than he has ever devoted to accomplishment.

But Mr. Donahue's month-old show was clearly at the heart of the new strategy, and it received, according to one MSNBC executive, the most promotion the channel has ever devoted to any program.

Of the three, "The Human Stain" is, to this reader, the most interesting book; its particular hero-fool is arguably the most socially intriguing character to whom Roth has ever devoted himself.

Although it never ran, I still consider the hours I spent in the extraordinary Condé Nast picture library, hunting high and low for the photographic equivalent of Proust's madeleine, some of the most thrilling I've ever devoted to "research".