It is hard to imagine what Holy Land was like in its prime, when thousands of people made the pilgrimage up the hill to pray, offer devotions or take in the surroundings.
Straus offered a devotion that seemed related to his company's independent ownership.
He described the women he was attracted to as "drowning women," women whose lives were damaged or insecure — which, of course, was why they offered the devotion he demanded.
The madrassas' sword is in the narrow education they offer, and the devotion they engender from students from the poorest classes who, without them, would have nowhere to go, or go hungry.
There's another woman, though, who has nothing to offer except her devotion, either a doglike instinct or something comparable to religious conviction, requiring no corroboration of its truth.
PATRICIA COLODNER Family Costume Night Patricia Colodner's world was shaped by her parents' divorce when she was just 2. So when she got married in 1990, she was determined to be the best parent she could be and offer "complete, unconditional devotion" to her family, recalled her husband, Warren.
Very few humans, even the ones who genuinely love us, will offer the same devotion.
The fragmentation of the traditional family and the swelling ranks of singles and empty nesters in cities has created a deep longing for child substitutes and the unquestioning devotion offered by pack animals.
The New Yorker, August 29 , 1988P. 18 Talk story about Forty Hours Devotion offered by parishioners of the church of the Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro district of San Francisco, where prayers are being offered for an end to the AIDS epidemic.
By Katy Butler The New Yorker, August 29 , 1988P. 18 Talk story about Forty Hours Devotion offered by parishioners of the church of the Most Holy Redeemer in the Castro district of San Francisco, where prayers are being offered for an end to the AIDS epidemic.
This thoughtful plan to "see the game prove worthy of our devotion" is offered with the implicit and sanguine hope that it could actually effect some change.
