Sentence examples for involves the quest for from inspiring English sources

"The Sun Chemist" (Knopf, 1976) involves the quest for a precious formula among the papers of Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel and a research chemist.

"No film whose plot involves the quest for Aerosmith tickets can take itself too seriously," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times.

The film's protagonist, Sara Rogers Seret Scottt), is a professor of philosophy (she teaches, as Collins did, at City College of New York), whose research involves the quest for ecstatic experience outside the realm of religion.

The men are quick to point out that whatever the current level of bedlam — this evening's crisis involves the quest for more local eggs, with a frittata hors d'oeuvre hanging in the balance — it pales in comparison with last year's.

While the two "Stargates" are essentially adventure series (they double as employment schemes for the very attractive), "Battlestar Galactica," which the producers describe as a "reimagining" of the short-lived late-seventies series of the same name, begins with apocalyptic disaster and involves the quest for a new home for mankind, or what's left of it.

In "State of Wonder," which climbs to No. 3 in its fourth week on the hardcover list, Patchett returns to the jungle with plenty of bug spray and a similarly hot-button plot involving the quest for a drug that would allow women to be fertile into old age — " 'Lost Horizon' for ovaries," as one character puts it.

Compelling stories involving the quest for justice or the thirst for revenge or a host of other inner needs can emerge from a setting that is an approximation of reality.

To the Editor: Having recently been involved in the quest for trip cancellation insurance for a Renaissance cruise we booked for the end of May, my husband and I read "Renaissance Loses Insurers" with particular interest in the Practical Traveler (March 26).

Dr. Lipkin, whose focus is human disease, became involved because the quest for a cause for the beehive collapses employed new genetic sifting techniques that he said might also prove useful in investigating outbreaks of human diseases.

Yarrow told me that he became involved in the quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace after appearing at a Passover peace rally on the streets of New York back in 1989.

The Palestinian commitment to terminating the 32-month-old Palestinian uprising against Israel and the Israeli decision to dismantle immediately some settlement outposts on West Bank hilltops appeared to constitute the first fruit of the Bush administration's decision to become centrally involved in the quest for a Middle East peace.