Sentence examples for passage devoted from inspiring English sources

In a passage devoted to his public sex scandal, they declare, "At thirty-three, he was untethered from his family by a narcissism that fed his self-destructive addictions to bodybuilding, painkillers, sleeping pills, and sex".

A combination of the two literary devices we've been discussing appears in a passage devoted to the artist Joseph Vernet, in which the dialogue imagines that each landscape painting is a real site discovered through walking and conversing (see Salon of 1767: Diderot on Art, Vol II, 86-129).

They included long passages devoted to conversations on such topics as the education of women; these were excerpted and published separately.

There are long passages devoted to quaint technologies such as note cards and address books, careful strategies for how to overcome the limitations of your local library.

MOST guidebooks for Ireland lean hard on rolling hillsides and golf, and passages devoted to Dublin tend to dwell on its historical markers and the tightly organized shopping district on Grafton Street, giving shorter shrift to books and theater.

While passages devoted to the characters' daily routines are energized by the sort of emotional detail that distinguished Ms. Brown's earlier books, this novel frequently lapses into embarrassingly flabby romance novel prose.

"We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," he said at the start of one of the longest passages devoted to a single subject in the speech.

When Johnson, for instance, received the National Book Award, in 1990, for his novel "Middle Passage," he devoted his entire acceptance speech to a celebration of Ellison.

Some of the collection's strongest passages are devoted to Schama's fascination with rhetoric.

Long passages are devoted to memorable but extraneous characters like the taxi driver who keeps a library in his cab.

Long passages are devoted to his social rounds, a recitation, for the most part, of obscure Russian names.