Sentence examples for glamorous pursuit from inspiring English sources

For all the passion they bring to the table, the Chinese have never viewed cooking as an especially glamorous pursuit, and celebrity chefs, à la Robuchon and Ducasse, are unheard of.

For all of Amis's testimonies about the transformative impact of Sept. 11 — which "will perhaps never be wholly assimilable," whatever that means — there is at least one way in which he has been thoroughly untouched by the atrocity: he is still busy with the glamorous pursuit of extraordinary sentences.

In the past few years, Vogelstein and Kinzler have shifted away from discovering new cancer genes to a less glamorous pursuit: using genetic tests to detect common tumors as early as possible, when they are easiest to cure.

What energy might have been spent prosaically reassessing Lawrence's character has been diverted to more glamorous pursuits, namely large-scale filmmaking.

Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have… In London last December, I met Emma Moss, a young songwriter who performs under the name Emmy the Great.

Making loans and fighting poverty are normally two of the least glamorous pursuits around, but put the two together and you have an economic innovation that has become not just popular but downright chic.

Backpacking may be the single least glamorous outdoor pursuit -- walking with a load on your back -- but it isn't immune to change.

As he saw it, his wasn't a glamorous life of artistic pursuits, endless parties and trendcasting.

Often, the money helped refurbish or repair existing projects ― a less glamorous but probably more consequential pursuit. .

It will not be, she insisted, a rejoinder to "The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Glamorous Story of Power, Profits, and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe," by Lauren Goldstein Crowe and Sagra Maceira de Rosen, a decidedly unauthorized history of the company.

Simply: It's glamorous when people disregard safety in the pursuit of pleasure, and no amount of medical data can change that.