He noticed a broad variety of niche publications — verticals — devoted to pursuits like surfing, skateboarding, and BMX riding, with no unifying horizontal.
He sees it as an advantage of his variety of utilitarianism that, not being "formulated in terms of pleasure", it can give weight to whether "we prefer a life for ourselves plugged into the machines to one devoted to pursuits now considered normal and enjoyable" (1981: 143).
Although much of the book seems to be devoted to pursuit of a distinction between performatives and constatives, none of the attempts succeeds.
So the firm created an online community linking amateurs to clubs devoted to outdoor pursuits.
Once Tommy worked at a supermarket and devoted himself to pursuits like bowling with frozen turkeys.
Throughout his life, Ferreira was a judge in Lisbon, where he chose to live quietly, devoted to humanistic pursuits.
In spite of the fact that Cabo Verde is not self-sufficient in food production, more than one-fifth of the labour force is devoted to agricultural pursuits.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, with its population of a little under 400,000, is promoted as a place devoted to outdoor pursuits, with over 150 parks.
Before gas and electric lighting, people routinely slept in two equal sessions, the so-called first sleep divided from the second by an hour or so devoted to other pursuits.
But the inimitable Daumier (who could be benevolent, as shown here in a series devoted to Parisian pursuits in the summer) tops the other wits here in his testy renditions of women with literary ambitions.
What sets the Blisses apart from others is their honesty about who they are; since their lives have been devoted to artistic pursuits, they never bothered to learn social restraint.
