The US public was deep in what nutrition experts sometimes call the "Snackwell phenomenon"—a devotion to low-fat and low-calorie processed snack foods, which people pounded by the bagful because they believed them to be healthy.
Or Germans might acknowledge that their devotion to low inflation makes it much harder for struggling economies like Greece to start growing again.
Why has it touched such a nerve?In part, it is popular devotion to low culture, a phenomenon often ignored by the elite.
John Darnielle, who leads this shifting ensemble, made his reputation, and a flood of albums, out of a staunch devotion to low-fidelity recording, most often on a department-store boom box.
Teva has secured its rise through aggressive acquisitions, strategic discipline, quality control, low prices and an infectious devotion to corporate frugality.
When things get tense in a session, she lightens the mood by cooing, making faces and uttering ridiculous nicknames like "Bu-ja-boo!" Having raised eyebrows as a teenager by going vegetarian and swearing off soda, Ms. Rosenfeld took a job after graduating from Brooklyn College at a nutrition center for low-income women, where her devotion to breast-feeding began.
When an outbreak of the deadly disease threatened to overwhelm a northern Ugandan hospital last year and spread far beyond its walls, there was only one man to call: Matthew Lu kwiya, a local doctor who combined low-key geniality and a devotion to his work that bordered on recklessness.
The modern Republican obsession with low taxes has superseded its traditional devotion to balanced budgets.
Abject, on her knees, devotion.
The study team has reported that the very temporary employment and low salary (generally paid irregularly) is a deterrent to the full devotion and commitment from teachers.
