The rabid -- and sometimes violent -- devotion to the sport will be on display in Belgium and the Netherlands beginning on June 10, the opening date for the European Championships, or Euro 2000.
Riseborough moves effortlessly and rivetingly from gawky passivity through obsessive infatuation and half-conscious self-deception to dogmatic self-belief, violent obduracy, suicidal devotion and detached resignation.
The husband and wife appear to have been motivated by a devotion to violent jihad, but the authorities have not connected them publicly to any extremists overseas.
There may be nothing more mysterious in human nature than the compulsion to turn our ideals, to turn our very devotion, towards violent and murderous ends.
The truth, however, is the truth, and here we are nearly 40 years after the novel's 1973 publication, and what Gent told us about some of the outlaw elements, abuse of painkillers and football players' devotion to a violent game that wrecks their bodies still holds true.
Marathi version calls this form of bhakti (devotion) as ugra (violent, demonic) bhakti.
And within its collections is the story of a vast empire -- its vibrant culture and religious devotion, as well as its violent conquests.
From then on, despite heckling and mockery, insult, and violent personal attack, Douglass never flagged in his devotion to the abolitionist cause.
Miranda July: Well, I think you have to do the violent willing, in a way, because that's your devotion.
"In fact, F.B.I. analysis suggests that psychological abnormalities, as much as devotion to an ideology, drive lone extremists to commit violent acts".
But it has also been the worst of times, with New Zealanders' devotion to their national sport wavering as disturbing sexual and violent incidents involving players at every level of the game have emerged, steadily souring public opinion.
