Sentence examples for a bit of a calling from inspiring English sources

Dr. Gerritsen makes it seem like a bit of a calling, like the practice of medicine itself, to help hurl doctors off into the new career, or at least hobby, of fiction authorship.

It's a bit of a mystery, calling more for psychological inquiry than policy analysis.

He described it as "ultimately a bit of a mess", calling the contrast between the "uneasy mix of the humorous and downright daft" gang and the "sinister" Solomon story "jarring".

Anyway it was back in 1483, which is still, like, over 500 years ago and Jack Bates was with his mum who was a bit of a hippy called Willow, because she was into homeopathy and that sort of shit.

To illustrate her point, Ms. Batuman mischievously quotes a bit of a play called "Pushkin and Gogol," by the early Soviet-era writer Daniil Kharms, in which Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol keep tripping over one another: "GOGOL, getting up: This is mockery, through and through!

Asked about his unexpected call-up Meaker said: "It was a bit of a surprise phone call, I suppose.

The medical journal enterprise - after the New England Journal of Medicine created a bit of a conflagration by calling secondary users of data "research parasites" - is finally engaging in the dialogue about solutions in a serious way.

So your surprise set at 11am this morning – a bit of a wakeup call?

"It's a bit of a tough call on Terry but he would probably admit himself he hasn't been completely happy with his own form," said Smith.

It's nice to remember how it used to be, but also use it as a bit of a rallying call to examine society's approach to risk".

The presence of the big pharmaceutical companies here is "a bit of a wakeup call for biotech companies and investors," said Geoffrey C. Porges, biotechnology analyst at the financial research firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.