His English biographer Ian Thomson suggests that Levi developed a sense of himself as physically and sexually inadequate, and that his subsequent devotion to robust athletic pursuits, such as mountaineering and skiing, represented a self-improvement project.
Khan also identified with Dostoyevsky himself and was particularly pleased when one of his later girlfriends showed signs (briefly) of living up to the high benchmark of Anna Dostoyevsky's devotion ("so robust and militant in her loving regard for her husband's nobility of soul," as he put it).
In rich countries and poorer ones, democratic and undemocratic, primarily Islamic and primarily Christian — everywhere, basically, except Europe — devotion to God has remained surprisingly robust.
And if it took the players a few moments to settle into each piece, once they did, they produced a robust, unified sound that reflected the almost ecstatic devotion that Messiaen and Mendelssohn embrace in these scores.
A person familiar with our country's core values -- our devotion to democratic self-governance, as well as to "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" debate, New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U. S. 254, 270 (1964) -- might expect this Court to celebrate, or at least not to interfere with, the second State's success.
It means "total devotion".
This devotion is sincere.
This devotion confuses me.
