Sentence examples for mad devotion from inspiring English sources
Texas Football also offers statewide rankings, glossy photo spreads, all-state teams; while Sports Illustrated and ESPN must worry about the broadest possible audience, geographically and athletically, Texas Football relies on its readers' utter, mad devotion to one sport in one place.
When he tries to pass this off as evidence of his mad devotion to the team, he'll have true-blue Giants fans who've taken out second mortgages to buy tickets hurling their copies off the 50-story construction sites where they're reading on their lunch breaks.
From the perspective of Pierre Berge, St. Laurent's lifelong companion, the film is perhaps an expression of the businessman's own mad devotion to the bespectacled designer who defined fashion in the mid century.
His first film, 1998's Pi, was about a lone mathematician driven mad by his devotion to numbers; it ended with the hero carving a chunk out of his scalp after trying to carve the secret name of God out of the value of pi.
The plot remains a melding of the humdrum and the deranged, nothing being madder than the devotion shown by Pegg and Wright as they spoof a cinematic genre of their choice.
The lyrical and the gruesome have seldom entwined so seamlessly or with such disturbing power as they do in Georges Franju's 1960 feature, a tale of mad science and fatherly devotion gone extravagantly wrong.
Two of the outstanding performer nominees in that field — Emily Wexler in Yvonne Meier's "Mad Heidi" and Nicole Mannarino in Sarah Michelson's "Devotion Study #1 — The American Dancer" — were very much dancing in dances.
The young bank worker who was swept off her feet in London by a racing-mad businessman hasn't flinched in her devotion.
Henry is numb from the boredom of the job, which Amis portrays as an endless round of visits to the ill, the moronic and the mad, punctuated by meetings with strange advisers whose devotion amounts to self-castration.
That sort of blind devotion seems to have driven other wine writers mad.
Nonetheless, the accent of devotion is unmistakable, and, if anything, one is driven to ask: Is this book mad enough?
