Sentence examples for a passionate vocation from inspiring English sources

"A passionate vocation for happiness, always betrayed and misdirected, ends in a need for total defeat; it is completely foreign to what, in my heart of hearts, I've always known could be mine if it weren't for this constant desire to fail".

For Postlethwaite, acting was not a matter of calculated celeb-careerism, but an unfashionably passionate vocation.

This is about that side of Abraham Lincoln's life neglected by the historians: his passionate vocation as a vampire hunter.

Kernis won a passionate ovation.

Ware is a passionate partisan of his vocation; he loves Charles Schulz's Peanuts ("Peanuts' was the lifelong psychological novel of Charles Schulz, spanning a half century of his and America's life") and has worked hard to preserve historical comics by campaigning for reprints of titles such as Krazy Kat and Gasoline Alley (both now back in print because of him).

Weber's methodology in the end amounts to a call for the heroic character-virtue of clear-sightedness and intellectual integrity that together constitute a genuine person of science — a scientist with a sense of vocation who has a passionate commitment to one's own specialized research, yet is utterly "free of illusions" [Löwith 1982, 38].

He called such a character a "politician with a sense of vocation" (Berufspolitiker) who combines a passionate conviction in supra-mundane ideals that politics has to serve and a sober rational calculation of its realizability in this mundane world.

A passionate victory.

He is a passionate guy.

He's a passionate moderate.

It's a passionate amalgam.