Sentence examples for great vocation from inspiring English sources

"The great vocation of the collective human psyche is denial.

McLane adds, with her signature dry wit, "My great vocation was not to feel ambivalent".

This spring, Glenda Jackson returns to the stage in "King Lear". Her other great vocation — her campaign against imprecision and intellectual slovenliness, obsequiousness and mediocrity in all forms — continues unabated.

But Weissbort continued to edit the magazine until 2003: Hughes had helped him find his great vocation and Modern Poetry in Translation, 50 years later, is in good shape and celebratory mood.

(Scott) ★ 'Flight' (R, 2 18) A titanic Denzel Washington plays a veteran commercial pilot whose greatest vocation should be his flying but has instead, for various reasons, become his drinking.

(Jeannette Catsoulis) ★ 'Flight' (R, 2 18) A titanic Denzel Washington plays a veteran commercial pilot whose greatest vocation should be his flying but has instead, for various reasons, become his drinking.

Played by a titanic Denzel Washington, he's a veteran commercial pilot whose greatest vocation should be his flying but, for this and that reason, has become his drinking.

(Holden) ★ 'Flight' (R, 2 18) A titanic Denzel Washington plays a veteran commercial pilot whose greatest vocation should be his flying but has instead, for various reasons, become his drinking.

(Catsoulis) ★ 'Flight' (R, 2 18) A titanic Denzel Washington plays a veteran commercial pilot whose greatest vocation should be his flying but has instead, for various reasons, become his drinking.

Teaching was his vocation, his great passion, his life's work.

Despite a clear notion of his vocation, Waugh had great dificulty pursuing his new career.