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Перевод: devotion
[существительное] преданность ; увлечение; сильная привязанность; набожность ; религиозное рвение; молитвы
Тезаурус:
- Every action which is accepted as kindly, every individual act of devotion and sacrifice, whether made in the havoc of war or in times of peace, every act of generosity and in fact every good thing which has resulted from the endless struggle to uphold the decision to master the violent and lustful urges which are a legacy from the evolutionary process, will play its part in providing units of goodness to be enshrined in the Created God.
- Goldwyn considered himself physically unappealing and Frances retained a lifelong devotion to George Cukor, who was homosexual.
- Richard Baxter's tender devotion to his wife gives the lie to the caricature of the Puritans as being cold, unemotional and joyless.
- The way to happiness then is the cultivation of thoughts that lead to contentment, joy and emotional warmth, and the habitual and increasing devotion to them, and the pruning out and burning of the thoughts that conduce to unhappiness.
- When it came to childraising, although they were libertarian towards the baby, they seemed conservative towards Phoebe's needs: demand feeding and endless devotion seemed to be required of her.
- The fatal disease was unromantic (measles), but it almost carried off Louis-Napoleon also, and only the courage and devotion of Hortense prevented her losing both sons.
- There are thousands of informers proclaiming a new devotion to Vaclev Havel.
- Where there is the darkness of unbelief, let me spread light; where there is the hate of social strife, love; where there is the error of heresy, truth; where there is the frustration of sin, forgiveness; where there are Muslims, devotion to Mary.
- A "Book of Hours" was the name given to such a prayerbook intended for private or family devotion, the term "hours" indicating not an interval of sixty minutes, but less precise parts of the day that were set aside for religious and other duties.
- While such figures cannot, of course, be seen as precise indicators of opinion, the downward trend apparent in all of them does suggest that devotion to the Fhrer - or at least the readiness to declare such devotion in public - had fallen rapidly by the time of the Stalingrad dbcle.
- One of the boarders was a clergyman, the Reverend Baron from Cheshire, and he, finding her at every turn with the Bible open, praised her devotion, which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks.
- Her only fault was that she was too saintly, and was thus exploited by too many people, out of greed and lack of consideration for a woman whose life was one of toil and devotion to her family.
- A Guardian profile said he had "shown devotion beyond the call of duty to self-publicity".
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