Sentence examples for ideal of vocation from inspiring English sources

Hawks weaves brawny romance and humor and a man's-man sort of heartbreak into his tribute to the ideal of vocation; the risky job of lifting mail over and through the mountains becomes a crucible of character, group feeling, and sexual loyalty.

Here he continues to examine the influence of Chinese literature on Japanese writers, addressing in particular reactions to Sung ideas, Zen Buddhism, and the ideal of literary vocation, michi.

He called such a character a "politician with a sense of vocation" (Berufspolitiker) who combines a passionate conviction in supra-mundane ideals that politics has to serve and a sober rational calculation of its realizability in this mundane world.

A certain kind of vocation.

But her sense of vocation remained vague.

Adopt a "long view" of vocation.

I congratulate you on your admirable choice of vocation.

"I have a sense of vocation about this.

Then, in 1749, he had an acute experience of vocation.

"I felt a sort of vocation," she says.

In the autumn of 1864 he entered Harvard Law School, ironically without any clear sense of vocation.