Employment also offers tangible alternatives to more destructive pursuits.
If they believe that theology can tilt a person toward extremism, they should certainly be able to swallow that culture can work to nudge a person away from destructive pursuits.
A few Scottish things did get left out of the Broons' weekly cartoon: all the Scottish mayhem, the terrible, terrible, destructive Scottish pursuit of the bottle, the culture of alcoholism, the knife fights, the wife- beatings, the grim slums, the beaten-up weans, the bad schools and, later on, the drugs that took place all around us.
It took me years to realize how destructive the pursuit of perfection really is.
Brittany clearly enjoys the food mischief of her mother; maybe they come together in less destructive, but equally vain, pursuits, like makeup or shopping.
"These practices are destructive of learning and the pursuit of knowledge".
According to this unambitious argument, comedy is too frivolous or brittle to bear study, and joke analysis is destructive and unproductive, a pointless professorial pursuit that betrays the artform's light-hearted spirit.
The sadness of Soho's twilight years is that the area has been caught between two irresistibly destructive and interlinked forces: the relentless pursuit of profit among landlords, and the widespread and appalling imperative to gentrify.
If we were to reject this agreement, Iran would be able to continue all of its destabilizing activities while continuing its pursuit of the most destructive weapon in the world.
I am uncertain whether it is the tonnelier making barrels in a distant shed or a destructive cerebral event caused by a misguided pursuit of the heroic.
