Sentence examples for serious devotee from inspiring English sources

Friends knew her as an effortless but magical cook, a cheerful wife and mother, and a serious devotee of fox terriers and Verdi and Trollope.

A serious devotee of the Hollywood golden age of the 1930s and '40s, and a not-so-serious collector of its memorabilia, she was going through a dealer's warehouse when she happened upon the four-foot-high Art Deco initials, glossily lacquered the color of a wine-red lipstick.

Most of these communications are beyond the scope of Clarke's collection, but the serious devotee of "In Cold Blood" would like to see them anyway, if only to measure the gradient of the slippery slope that Capote rolled down toward "Handcarved Coffins" (1980), a superfictionalized "nonfiction account" of another American crime he'd heard about from Alvin Dewey.

In 1967 Burroughs became a more serious devotee to Scientology, taking several courses and in 1968 becoming what the Church of Scientology calls a "clear"—a person who has eradicated the harmful influence of their reactive mind by removing engrams, traumatic mental images, from their subconscious through Scientology's auditing process.

These are serious devotees.

POLPETTINA, a tiny storefront pizzeria with youthful enthusiasm and Brooklynesque charm, has won serious devotees since it opened in the Crestwood section of Eastchester last March.

The Dolphins are one of thirty-odd skin-diving clubs around NYC. Around 8 million Americans have acquired skin-diving equipment; about a half million are serious devotees.

Serious devotees flock together in societies and attend dahlia shows, where they admire new varieties and collect tubers of named dahlia cultivars to add to their collections.

Most families wait for their "Paideia" to arrive at school; but serious devotees know when the advance audio version of "Paideia" will go up on the Scripps Howard Web site.

It can be condemned by serious devotees of literature only if it falsifies life through oversimplification and tends to corrupt its readers into belief that reality is as the author presents it.

Sometimes lyrical, sometimes matter-of-fact, she is a writer of clarity, precision and thoughtfulness, three qualities that make her work attractive to an equally varied readership, from serious devotees of small-circulation literary quarterlies to a broad popular audience.