devotion

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Traces of Guler's lifelong devotion to cinema can even be found in his teenage diaries from the late 1940s and 1950s, according to Temel Yilmaz, conservator and archive researcher.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

On the surface, her waltz-time ballad, Alice, seems to be a saccharine tale of love and devotion.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

Even if imperfect, the value is in the effort, in the ongoing practice of remembering, as an act of devotion to family and self.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

“People associate that sense of permanence with a divine quality and a metaphor for things that are eternal, like love between people, devotion to a deity and political power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson