Sentence examples for implies devotion from inspiring English sources

Many Japanese are indeed discovering things to love about their country these days, but aikokushin, say worried liberals, implies devotion to a particular idea of Japan: as a uniquely entitled nation supported by hard-working but unquestioning citizens.

To be fair to Weiner, he never tried to sell himself as an ascetic; still, something in his Schumeresque bearing implied a devotion to ideology over indulgence; his willingness to appear regularly on Fox News and brave the half-wits, all by himself, seemed at least rigorous, the act of a man of ambition more than of appetite.

Royce's answer actually rejects the sort of static concepts and beliefs usually implied by devotion to specific creeds, including those identified with Christianity.

"Fragmented Devotion" hardly implies that the symbolic looting of Schnutgen's collection led directly to the Holocaust.

Jewish visitors must be protected by policemen; where radical Jews go, the Israeli state usually follows (see article).In the ever-contested ground of the Holy Land, prayer is not just an act of personal devotion: it implies ownership.

The use of "we" implies a kind of infallible devotion.

But the play also says something painfully true about resistance to change and the naive belief that a lifetime's devotion to a job implies a meaningful legacy.

Anderson implies another dimension to his own cinephilic devotion — a dimension that, however, he doesn't build back into his own film.

His religion is reflected in his book "The Culture of Disbelief" (Anchor/Doubleday, 1993), in which he laments a "rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion" and argues for an infusion of religious spirit into civic discourse.

Even if he never quite passes himself off as an English gentleman, Jack's devotion to his "unique and solitary calling" implies a level of assimilation he never knows he has achieved.

("Cult" implies some kind of worship, and we can no longer assume that mass devotion on the Star Wars level is something anyone can be proud of).