devotes 测验

[H]e's devoting too much psychic energy to an ideological pissing war with Monty Kipps. -- Joy Press, [5].

So after “The Rainmaker” in 1997 — another decent, well-acted, sharply directed movie with no evident aspirations to be anything more — he seemed to enter a phase of semi-retirement, devoting himself to winemaking and proud papahood.