Sentence examples for inner commitment from inspiring English sources
But until he makes an inner commitment, he will remain outside the sacred precincts of the Wagnerian grail.
After his daughters were born, he switched to his wife's church, First United Methodist, but a close friend says that in those days he went to church each Sunday more for the sake of his daughters than because of any deep inner commitment.
Like Count Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace – who is a thinly veiled self-portrait of Tolstoy himself – his pilgrim's progress begins in the brothel, and proceeds via a commitment to religious organisations (in War and Peace, the Christian ritualism of Masons) to a simple inner commitment to the will of God.
Thus apart from motivating the individual to reach his/her personal vision, creative tension also creates an inner commitment for this effort.
I could 1) quietly buy a ticket and totally negate my inner commitment, 2) seethe quietly at home, or 3) go the fuck off about it on Facebook.
Shocked by what she saw, Buchenholz says she made "some kind of silent, inner commitment that I would get them help". "With this particular family, it was a very personal, subjective thing," she said.
A more expansive metaphor has been used by campaign strategists who say that in political broadcasts the television camera works like an X-ray, exposing all aspects of a candidate's personality, character, intellect and inner commitments.
However, it is clear throughout Mr. Loeb's book that the availability to an individual of information about the arms race, and his opportunities for contact with people he trusts who are themselves concerned with the issue, support the inner process of commitment.
When you paint a canvas or play volleyball, you're in a creative improvisation that calls on inner fortitude and commitment and that reflect your values through self-expression.
Indeed, the inner strength and commitment of our Liberian colleagues prompted much self-reflection.
