Culture

Michael Haneke's unflinching study of a husband's devotion to a wife dying of a stroke. Love as the willingness to witness and not turn away.

A family bound by flawed, complicated devotion - people who couldn't stop caring about each other despite doing it badly.

The first ten minutes of Up tell a complete story of devotion. A man whose entire life was organized around one relationship.

Seen from the other side: the devotion of the family left behind, unable to stop loving someone who needed to leave.

A family's devotion to a woman who is losing herself to early-onset Alzheimer's. Constancy when the person you love is slipping away.

Coach Taylor's devotion to his players and his marriage. Clear eyes, full hearts - devotion made into a culture.

Devotion as the defining texture of family life. Not dramatic, not always graceful - just the relentless daily practice of showing up.

Stevens's devotion given to the wrong things. Kazuo Ishiguro on what happens when you finally notice you've been loyal to someone unworthy.

Cormac McCarthy: a father's absolute devotion to his son after the end of everything. Devotion as the only remaining reason to live.

Gabriel García Márquez on devotion that waits fifty-one years without guarantee. Constancy as a form of faith.

Twenty years of unraveling and reweaving. Devotion as active patience - love expressed through daily repetitive work.

"Where you go I will go." Ruth choosing to stay with Naomi after every reason to leave had arrived. Devotion as chosen covenant.

Walking the wards at night with a lamp, caring for soldiers when everyone had given up. Devotion institutionalized into modern nursing.

A devotion to her work so complete it killed her. Two Nobel Prizes and a life organized entirely around a discipline.

Etta James. The relief of devotion finally met - the weight of having waited and the beauty of arrival.

Alphaville. The devotion of a parent - the wish you cannot stop making for someone you cannot fully protect.