Sentence examples for the point of devoting from inspiring English sources

But rarely in contemporary fiction do we come across a man or woman of God -- forget about devotees of the healing power of crystals; we're talking about old-fashioned nuns or monks, straight out of central casting -- who is also exhausted, who has lost faith not so much in God but in the point of devoting a life to him to the exclusion of everything else.

He made a point of devoting some of his work with the Jupiter Symphony to charitable causes.

Spend some time at this exhibition even if you don't reach the point of wanting to devote your life to studying these eight-legged, carnivorous, bifurcated, silk-spinning creatures, as has the exhibition's curator, Norman Platnick of the museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

The fourth section of "The Atomic Bazaar," called "The Point of No Return," is devoted to an American journalist, Mark Hibbs, who, according to Mr. Langewiesche, "is largely unknown to the public, but must rank as one of the greatest reporters at work in the world today".

Cleverly, the main story is told from the point of view of Everhard's devoted wife, but it's accompanied by a series of footnotes supposedly written centuries later that reveal early on that Everhard's heroic struggle was doomed: he was going to be executed and his supporters crushed.

More interestingly, from the point of view of someone who is devoting a significant amount of time to making a new literary selection, there are those who debate, in a serious way, the choices I've made, challenging my criteria, and offering alternative readings.

Mr Blair rightly pointed to the absurdity of devoting almost half of all EU spending to the CAP (though that is an improvement on the 1980s, when the CAP absorbed 70%).

Schaal plays Mel, the Conchords' solitary fan, a woman who is devoted to the point of being sinister.

He's devoted to the point of obsession, but that doesn't mean he won't sneak off early on Friday to get a head start at the pub.

Not to mention that during a 15-day lightning tour of Rajasthan or Bali they will miss the point of Gilbert's adventure, which was to devote plenty of time to her journey.

They were beyond committed to me, devoted almost to the point of obsession.