Sentence examples for universal devotion from inspiring English sources

The historian Tanya Kevorkian suggests that Bach's cantatas were received with something less than universal devotion; while some members of the congregation followed closely, others chatted, milled about, or went out for a smoke.

The theme is timeless and universal: the devotion of two people who love each other through thick and thin, complicated in this case by the wayward personality of the man, who cannot fulfill the responsibilities he has assumed.... Billy is a bum, but Carousel recognizes the decency of his motives and admires his independence.

Among the "republican" values Peillon deemed universal are knowledge, devotion and solidarity.

But wherever and whenever it is observed, the day pays tribute to a universal form of devotion: a mother's love and sacrifice for her children.

Buchan is after more universal themes: despair, longing, devotion and, most of all, love -- but not love as you and I know it.

"Such unhealthy devotion was causing universal unease at the Presunción: this was the first time in its history a client had come to sin as punctually as he went, with intrepid daily devotion, to his job".

Cross ultimately came out against this technique, recalling how a flirty boss went from having devoted subordinates and universal popularity to being resented by all once they realized "their devotion would never be returned".

The film's universal message is a son's devotion to his mother, but accompanying it is a good deal of gentle satire of both the absurdities of Soviet Bloc Communism and the vulgarity of Western capitalism.

With Dr. Patricia Uberoi and Pooja Sood as curators, the exhibition explores the many uses of female imagery in calendar art, whether in regard to fertility and prosperity, universal energy and the arts or wifely devotion; (212) 46212212.

In September, 1915, he reported to her that Vivienne had "a great deal of mental passion & no physical passion, a universal vanity, that makes her desire every man's devotion, & a fastidiousness that makes any expression of their devotion disgusting to her" — which suggests that something did happen, or failed to happen, between them.

He added: "This is further proof of the devotion of the American people to universal human values and is an important step towards the prevention of crimes against humanity".