Sentence examples similar to wide devotion from inspiring English sources

Daphne's wide-eyed devotion doesn't get her much of a reward, however – Maryann gets Eggs to stab her in the heart.

"It wasn't until I got to college that I realized that our lives" — the 10 p.m. mandatory bedtime till age 18, the absence of friends, the family-wide devotion to the two young girls' tennis game — "weren't what other people considered normal," says Isha Price, the oldest surviving sister and an attorney who helps handle some of Venus's and Serena's business affairs.

This promise is part of a culture-wide devotion to thinness that has many of the features of traditional religion, including beliefs, images, myths, rituals, and moral codes that teach us to define our value and purpose through the pursuit of a "better" (read: thinner) body.

I was terribly nervous, and I had to run across a meadow to this bush, where Lizzie was hiding, and she said, 'Judi, you look like a lovely birthday card!'" She thinks her saintly reputation may stem from the fact that she has appeared "in situation comedies, so I'm in people's sitting rooms a lot", and it probably is the breadth of her career that inspires such wide-reaching devotion.

My new friend Suketu Mehta wrote "Maximum City" and a recent New York Times op-ed about Bombay's wide-open devotion to commerce.

"The ghastliness of this damp and squishy comedy is the byproduct of a confused and earnest sentimentality, a willful devotion to wide-eyed wonder that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness".

But Hagen couches the story in a wider narrative about her devotion to Westlife, of whom she was a famous fan 10 years ago.

If other countries have similarly high numbers of believers, however, only America combines such intense religious devotion with such wide religious diversity.

Great literature and great criticism possess in common a sort of penumbra of wide but unsystematic learning, a devotion to civilized values, an awareness of tradition, and a willingness to rely occasionally on the irrational and intuitive.

Flannery and Sufjan resonate in larger circles, yes, but their work, like Tolkien's, casts wide nets of longing, questioning, devotion, anxiety, suffering, redemption, and grace.

The songs turn the whole congregation into a choir, proclaiming their devotion in forthright, wide-open, vibrato-free chords with drones and inner counterpoint that hark back to Renaissance music.