devotion
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The pair singing along to Prine and DeMent’s “In Spite of Ourselves,” with its wincingly funny lovers trading jabs and devotions, is one moment of levity and self-awareness breaking through the desperation.
From Los Angeles Times
The display of adoration and devotion is infectious.
From Salon
But the painful fact is that devotion alone cannot cure a complex, chronic disease.
From Los Angeles Times
The precious gift of freedom, won only through sacrifice, devotion and no small amount of luck, should not be taken for granted.
It has also helped prevent the encroachment of evangelical Christianity seen in many other parts of Latin America, with few here willing to give up their devotion to the “Virgencita,” as Guadalupe is widely known.
From Los Angeles Times
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