Sentence examples for important pastime from inspiring English sources

Games have been an important pastime for adults and children alike, providing intellectual challenges and entertaining practice in analysis and strategy.

This is analogous to Voltaire's own view on gardening: he was himself a gardener at his estates in Les Délices and Ferney, and he often wrote in his correspondence that gardening was an important pastime of his own, it being an extraordinarily effective way to keep busy.

I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime.

But saying baseball is no longer our national pastime ignores important facts: Football teams play once a week, often in cold weather, obviating competing outdoor diversions, yet baseball attracts fans to stadiums daily for six months.

The moment of self-aware comedy in the couple's sexual pastime is important — it's the moment where the action becomes a literal game, where Jolie Pitt winks at the mechanism, at the artifice of the device that she has set up.

The reason is that I quickly learned that what initially appeared to me an exotic scientific pastime had important implications for my everyday clinical activity.

Don't overlook it or pass it up for less important or less meaningful pastimes.

It's okay to change your tune about a topic, a trend, a pastime, or an important part of popular culture.

Those pastimes are all important as you discover what you each like and don't like and whether you will be able to enjoy time together.

"Baseball is not only America's pastime, it's an important part of our community fabric".

Baseball is undoubtedly America's pastime, but it's important to remember that the phrase denotes affinity, not proprietorship.