Sentence examples for indefatigable interest from inspiring English sources

Herodotus was a great traveler with an eye for detail, a good geographer, a man with an indefatigable interest in the customs and past history of his fellow citizens, and a man of the widest tolerance, with no bias for the Greeks and against the barbarians.

A lifetime of learning and physical fitness, coupled with an indefatigable interest in space.

The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad.

One Massachusetts official called French Canadians "the Chinese of the eastern states" in an 1881 report that described them as "indefatigable workers" who had no interest in assimilating and drove American wages down.

Unencumbered by any training as a diplomat, Washburne proved to be an indefatigable protector of America's interests, arranging passports for Americans to escape the siege and acting with bravery during the two months of the Paris Commune.

He was indefatigable in seeking out and cataloguing interesting items.

In this voluminous biography, which was selected by the editors of the Book Review as one of the best books of 1999, the enigmatic J. Pierpont Morgan is portrayed as an inarticulate man with little interest in introspection but whose imperious, ruthless, indefatigable personality enabled him to forge the financial superstructure of the leading American industries in the Gilded Age.

As Bruno Maddox put it in a review for the New York Times, Hitchens concluded that Mother Teresa was "less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs".

David Katz, of Yale, one of the members of the advisory panel, and an indefatigable defender of the orthodoxies, told me that Teicholz's work "reeks of conflict of interest" without specifying what those conflicts were.

He was a model parliamentarian, in the sense that he had an indefatigable appetite for constituency work and attending debates, many of them dreary and of only parochial interest.

Either way, for the social services on which these one-button broadcast apps now squat — as parasite or symbiotic extension to stoke our interest lest it dare to flag — live video holds out the lucrative promise of indefatigable spectacle, rolled round and round by the ebb and flow of the capricious crowd.