wedded

There's nothing on Play that feels as wedded to eastern musical traditions as George Harrison's Within You Without You - or even Shakira's Whenever Wherever.

"There is a very vibrant democracy, wedded to democratic principles and to elections."

But speaking to the Guardian newspaper on Friday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was "not wedded to any specific policy" to reduce child poverty.

More tellingly: If your existence is wedded to bureaucracy, it’s easy to be dispensed with and disappeared.

The anecdote about “Conclave” is interesting because clearly the costume designer wasn’t just wedded to fact and realism, but instead to world-building.