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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

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

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

Malcolm took his part with James in singing the rhythm, which he had learnt long ago at Coldingham, and which thus in every note brought back the vanished aspirations and self-dedication to ‘the straight way.’

From The Caged Lion by Yonge, Charlotte Mary