Sentence examples for history of devotion from inspiring English sources

American statesmen with Dartmouth degrees have a history of devotion to their alma mater.

"The Whitney has a long history of devotion to social realism," he said, adding that at one time the museum made bolder choices, as when, in the 60's, it put on the first museum exhibition devoted to the work and theory of Robert Venturi.

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate, through physicians' ratings of importance of the various values or virtues of medical professionalism, that even physicians who are not familiar with the term 'medical professionalism' embody the concept through their history of devotion to medical practices that are consistent with these values.

The 15th century is also in many ways the high point in the history of Roman Catholic devotion to the Virgin Mary.

The Zweig connection hints rightly at a link between Ophüls (born in 1902) and Anderson, who are two of the most delicate, exacting, and effervescent stylists in the history of cinema — and whose devotion to style has, at times, been mistaken for a lack of substance.

"With the best intentions and as an expression of devotion to the history and the future of the Chelsea, Patti went to considerable effort to give its tenants a free concert, solely for them," she wrote.

Ang Lee, in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," borrowed the tropes of Asian martial-arts films but filled them out with history and friendship and the rituals of devotion and discipleship and, in the end, gave the material the weight and power of myth.

But the writer and director Vicente Aranda's fact-based historical film of sexual obsession has one of the more unforgettable openings in film history as the elderly Joan, embers of devotion still ablaze in her eyes, talks about a memory of the man she loved who brought her to ruin.

With the chilled drizzle running down his cheeks, Wolfe summoned an intense inner anger, born of decades of devotion to documenting Nazi history.

With the hard-chilled rain drizzling down our cheeks, Wolfe summoned an intense inner anger born of decades of devotion to documenting Nazi history.

"The arduousness is what makes it an act of devotion," said Rebecca Solnit, author of "Wanderlust: A History of Walking".