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You could feel that the performances were acts of self-dedication, of communion with the dead.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2018

With one eye on world news and the other on Variety, he is a volatile mixture of show business and politics, of exhibitionistic self-dedication and a seemingly sincere passion to change the world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Simone Weil's whole life, writes Fiedler, was a series of acts of self-dedication that fizzled into lugubriousness.

From Time Magazine Archive

They received it, instead, through Ginzburg, who acted with remarkable courage and self-dedication.

From Time Magazine Archive

He speaks much of the death of self, of purity of heart, and of self-dedication to God.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir