Within the carnivalesque atmosphere and high-spirited revelry of Moore's show, there's a master of political rhetoric at work, and he devotes that mastery to a high patriotic calling.
The few sentences he devoted to that youthful experience in his 1999 campaign biography have been mocked as evidence of his incurious nature and his knack for the obvious, but reading them here this week, I was struck by something else.
But once he is able to do that while flying, he said, he will be able to devote that time to his family.
He's so devoted that he tells the woman who left him that he could get to like her new boyfriend.
He is so devoted that he postponed his wedding last year to accommodate Mr. Sarkozy's schedule, and he stayed in his job even after Mr. Sarkozy called him an "imbecile" during an interview on American television.
He didn't like school much, except for Smith's design class, to which he is so devoted that he volunteered to put finishing touches on several inventions the class started last year.
The public school system, shamefully inadequate, got a steady stream of invective from Mr. Giuliani, but none of the laser-like attention that he devoted to projects and initiatives that appealed to him.
By most accounts, García, 30, might have had enough talent to play professional soccer had he devoted his energies to that sport.
DONALD WIGAL New York David Rohde's appreciation of Richard C. Holbrooke concludes that he "devoted his life to public service, a notion that is now derided in many quarters".
Mr. Batista said in the suit, which was filed in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, that he devoted "significant effort" to the lawsuit and that Ms. Cohen constantly "lavished high praise" on him.
