Sentence examples for a serious vocation from inspiring English sources

But what began as economic necessity rapidly developed into a serious vocation.

During a mentorship and affair with Ford Madox Ford in Paris in the 1920s, her writing hobby became a serious vocation and a "cure for disillusionment," Pizzichini says.

The film is a romantic comedy about a young man who believes he can please his demanding fiancée only by giving up his dream job as a sports radio talk show host for a more serious vocation.

Actually, it is probably simply another example of the nostalgia to which screen comics are prone: the nostalgia for the student or ex-student days of messing around, talking about stupid TV shows and pop culture and having fun – the playful atmosphere from which their deadly serious vocation of comedy originally sprang.

A young former racehorse, badly beaten up and abused by that notorious vocation, and with a serious injury requiring months of rehab with an uncertain outcome, was available at a bargain basement price.

But as Rauschenberg's fame grew, he was seen as a serious artist with a social and political vocation; the secret love of his early art diffused into vagueness.

"I lost my sense of vocation — that you were fulfilling a serious and necessary function in your culture.

"On the other hand," he went on, "if you are a serious-minded person and prepared to work hard in any vocation, you can make your way.

Is my science career a job or a vocation?

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Cruess et al. [ 29] emphasized the relationship between a profession and a vocation.