"I sort of, like, find a direction in how to identify ways to further culinary expectations".
When Ray moved to California in 1981, he was struggling to find a direction in his work.
And that seems to be a direction in which Zarin Mehta, the orchestra's new executive director, is inclined to move.
Not to make them change direction, but to help them shape a direction in a more refined way.
And it's very encouraging in that sense because it suggests a direction in which the theater might go.
"The Church gives me a direction in life that I can't even put into words," she said.
Mr Obama took a direction in Libya that was deliberately distinct from the one Mr Bush trod in Iraq.
The council might finally wake up, but if so it will have to reverse a direction in which it has been heading for a decade.
His current favorite is Karada-chan, a copper-haired sixth grader from the anime "A Direction in the Day After Tomorrow".
But as he worriedly counsels Vince to find a direction in his life, there is an unmistakable tone of condescension beneath his studiously therapeutic tone.
"Although resentment isn't quite the same thing as having a direction in life," Geng writes in his lucid prose, "it revved me up and gave me some torque".
