Sentence examples for a practical pursuit from inspiring English sources

This Ph.D. integrated his academic understanding of aesthetics with a practical pursuit in his life through his travels, entertaining engaging conversations and turning friends into family.

Architecture is both an art and a practical pursuit, and the profession has always been divided between those who emphasize the art, that is pure design, and those who give priority to the practical.

Its special tension comes from its struggle to balance practical and esthetic concerns; to argue that architecture is only a practical pursuit or only an esthetic one, rather than both, is the stuff of freshman dormitory discussions and no more.

For others, it is a more practical pursuit of specific goals.

Some general teaching tips... Teaching is an empirical, imminently practical pursuit.

More than a few are infusing what used to be an athletic, or purely practical, pursuit with eye-catching glamour and sex appeal.

Thus, a three-time prime minister, a visionary to whom peace for Israel was the only practical pursuit, who is a Nobel Prize laureate, was defeated by a fragmented legislature.

This is a collective of scientists, psychologists, sociologists and architects "dedicated to the practical pursuit of creating, producing and examining new forms of thrilling experience", which is just what Merlin and I need.

And if the difference is supposed to be that writing depends on talent, well so does every intellectual and practical pursuit.

In 1957, in a letter to a persistent Observer reader, a "gentleman" from Sussex who accused her of being an armchair gardener, she describes how Sissinghurst's garden consumed her: "For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation".

The first aim of this paper is to shed light on the thermodynamic reasons for the practical pursuit of low temperature operation by engineers involved in the design and the operation of combined heat and power (CHP) and district heating (DH) systems.