Sentence examples for from a quest from inspiring English sources

Bales said the cantata stemmed from a quest he began several years ago for an arrangement of "Dixie" worthy of its music.

He admitted that his photographic interest in the boisterous company of street children sprang from a quest "for the kind of childhood I didn't have".

A key part of King's vision, aside from a quest for racial equality, was the idea of non-violence; he refused to use violent actions in any of his protests, and taught his followers to do the same.

Rusesabagina suggests the tragedy arose principally from a quest for power and a fear of difference; readers may draw their own comparisons with the Nazi Holocaust and tribal conflicts elsewhere.

"The Asian empires of Portugal, England, and the Netherlands might be said with only a little exaggeration to have sprouted from a quest for cinnamon, cloves, pepper, nutmeg, and mace, and something similar was true of the Americas.

A man charged in one of the worst mass slayings in Indianapolis history was convicted of killing seven members of one family, including three children, in a bloody rampage that prosecutors said stemmed from a quest for drugs and cash that did not exist.

ARTS & LEISURE Hiding From the Past "When We Were Orphans," the new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of "The Remains of the Day," looks like a detective novel but is really a flight from freedom, a quest after an identity immune from reality.

It follows his journey of discovery, from purchasing a box of her negatives on a whim at a Chicago auction in 2007 to Googling her and finding her obituary in 2009; from beginning a quest to learn who she was to representing her estate and making contemporary prints of her work in conjunction with Howard Greenberg Gallery.

There was a medical student from Hong Kong on a quest to save lives, and two Buddhist nuns from Henan Province in central China hoping to provide spiritual aid to the stricken.

As non-player character objects were "slain" in the quest, Danny moved forth to collect the "loots" (winnings from a successful quest solved) arising from the mentioned quest.

Here's a typical passage, from "Retrospection" (2000): "A quest lit with reality — terrible name, this place.