Sentence examples for a quest for authenticity from inspiring English sources

Adolescence is an age of compulsive posing that coincides with a quest for authenticity, and Malraux never outgrew either.

His theory was that in a quest for authenticity Dinosaur had erred on the side of blandness, skimping on sauces and spices.

Carrie's book is also less a music memoir than a quest for authenticity and artistic freedom when you're a woman in a man's world," Doyle explains.

The belated discovery of a letter that John Lennon once wrote him sends him on a quest for authenticity and roots.

And so, in many ways, Unloved is his attempt to find some of that roughness again, a quest for "authenticity and that feeling that you get when you listen to something".

Supping tea with the voters in small-scale domesticated settings requires different skills from huge shouty meetings to trade union "brothers", but the Queen and Margaret Thatcher have also been at it in a quest for authenticity: both condescended to visit council homes in staged photo opportunities.

During the one and only table read, I'd planned to come out to the cast by playing I Am What I Am, the Gloria Gaynor version of a song written for Broadway's La Cage aux Folles, a great way, or so I thought, to come out as transgender, introduce my script about a musician's quest for authenticity and let people know I was a disco-loving dork, all in one gesture.

It's characteristic of our jumbled and uprooted identities that gastronomic fashion in the United States often boils down to a quest for somebody else's authenticity.

But "This Unruly Mess" is most fascinating as a document of Macklemore's quest for authenticity, from his earnest dissertation on structures of privilege to the personal demons of "Kevin," a spiky blues-funk number about a friend lost to a prescription-drug overdose.

"The search and quest for authenticity became a tyranny," said Mr. Bhabha.

The knowledge thus gained indirectly placed the quest for authenticity in a wider context and contributed to the development of more-objective criteria for or against the attribution of a painting to Rembrandt.