Sentence examples for just devotion from inspiring English sources

The opposition reflects more than just devotion to local tradition.

Much of what we know about Smiley accumulates through his reactions to the lies and sad truths that he hears, in slight movements of the eyes and in his capacity for surprise, an analogue for the idealism, or perhaps just devotion to his craft, that drives him.

He cast his decision to stay as not just devotion to the land where he grew up and a reluctance to abandon his cows, but also an act of defiance against the powerful government and corporate elite, whose hubris he blames for the crisis.

But amid this fervor Heschel was also a follower of Jewish laws, putting an emphasis on ritual and actions, not just on devotion and belief.

The saga has particular resonance today among hardline Barelvis, Pakistan's largest grouping of Sunni Muslims, not just because devotion to the prophet is central to their faith, but because they argue Qadri should also be regarded as a national hero.

He's more than just friendly devotion and animalistic wails, though.

Raf Katigbak: Maybe it's because our flag is kind of gay, or that our national anthem is an uninspiring yawnfest, but blind devotion just isn't our deal.

Still, if music and words are respected in most productions today, the reason is not just a principled devotion to the masters but also something more pragmatic.

But, after seeing these people achieve the extraordinary feat of stamina and sheer will that we'd just witnessed, the devotion that seemed most apparent was theirs to the task at hand, and to dance.

Mr. Gore, the nation's unofficial technologist in chief, even in defeat, is the ideal embodiment of BlackBerry users, who are cultlike in their devotion, just as Mr. Simmons represents the rival cult of the Motorola.

Her songs about eternal love and the pain of separation have, two decades later, become not just vows of devotion but invocations of nostalgia, longing and, for Iranians in North America, the pain of exile.