Sentence examples for self-sacrificing devotion from inspiring English sources

But, as it turns out (back again to the surprising ending), the kind of love that will truly illuminate him isn't that of classic romance, whether of erotic passion or of sacramental union, it's a love of bewildering, self-sacrificing devotion, a family that's a surrogate for the Holy Family.

There's Lydgate, with his idealism and adoration of Rosamond's beauty, who is brought up short against her simple selfishness; Dorothea, whose self-sacrificing devotion runs aground on the shallows of Casaubon's self-importance; ruined Bulstrode with his loyal wife; practical Celia and generous Sir James, and sensible Mary Garth with feckless Fred Vincy.

At the bridge dedication ceremony, Congressman Hewitt remarked, "This is an everlasting monument to the self-sacrificing devotion of woman...the name Emily Warren Roebling will be inseparably associated with all that is admirable in human nature". So, who is Emily Warren Roebling, and why did a bridge built by men, only stand the test of time because of one woman?

King often explained that the Greeks had three words for love: eros (aesthetic or romantic love), philia (friendship), and agape (self-sacrificing devotion to others).

Author Francis Wilson, 11 years old at the time of Lincoln's assassination, wrote an epitaph of Booth in his 1929 book John Wilkes Booth: "In the terrible deed he committed, he was actuated by no thought of monetary gain, but by a self-sacrificing, albeit wholly fanatical devotion to a cause he thought supreme".

In the course of his researches, Darwin had observed instances of self-sacrifice and devotion throughout the animal kingdom.

Mougouch was self-sacrificing.

She is self-sufficient and self-sacrificing.

She is determined, indomitable, self-serving but also self-sacrificing.

Lewis's art was both emotionally and physically self-sacrificing.

Andrei is the ur-man: brave, bold, noble, self-sacrificing.