Neither index finger works anymore, not a good thing for a woman whose life is devoted to the piano.
Bear Island, I knew, has been preserved in virtually the same state of development as when Fuller's grandmother bought it, in 1904 — no telephone, no electricity, no running water — and this strikes some of Fuller's friends as an odd setting for a man whose life is devoted to making the highest technology serve a hundred per cent of humanity.
Maybe that's where I see faith in anyone whose life is devoted to invention and creativity in any form â€" a combination of trust and hope that the immeasurable moment of discovery will come again.
The day we mourned a man whose life was devoted to clarity, this city was hidden in fog.
Anthony Wood, byname Anthony À Wood (born Dec. 17, 1632, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. died Nov. 29, 1695, Oxford) English antiquarian whose life was devoted to collecting and publishing the history of Oxford and its university.
December 17, 1632 Oxford, England November 29, 1695 Oxford, England Anthony Wood, byname Anthony À Wood (born Dec. 17, 1632, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng. died Nov. 29, 1695, Oxford) English antiquarian whose life was devoted to collecting and publishing the history of Oxford and its university.
All she managed to establish was that Will.i.am is some modern-day St Francis of Assis.i.am, whose entire life is devoted to his deep Christian faith and acts of philanthropy.
So a staunch abolitionist like Timothy may have to flout the law he has sworn to protect, a matter of conscience that eludes his brother, a ward boss whose personal life is devoted to "narcotics, alcohol, bribery, violence, whoring, gambling, theft, cheating, extortion, sodomy, spying and forgery".
By tradition a British butcher is a jolly chap; and few could be jollier than a man whose life was devoted, first, to making the perfect sausage, and, second, to matching it with the perfect foaming pint.
My whole life is devoted to being a Sister; that comes first before being a nurse.
An habitual poker player, he was wonderful in the 2007 revival of Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice, playing a loveless solitary whose whole life was devoted to the card table.
