Sentence examples for lifelong task from inspiring English sources

Murnane's mysterious plainsmen pursue the "lifelong task of shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the substance of myth".

Before J. R. entered the Affinia Hotel ballroom, across from Madison Square Garden, he performed a nearly lifelong task: he gnawed on the shoes his handler, Scott Sommer, wanted to wear.

According to Jeff Wilson, the author of "Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture," mindfulness in traditional Buddhist commentaries was "presented as a strenuous, lifelong task, one that occurs within a framework of renunciation and detachment".

"I know and respect a lot of 17-year-olds, but I don't think any of them are ready to be married and begin the lifelong task of raising a child".

Self-management may be a lifelong task for patients with chronic back pain.

Adorno says the book aims to complete what he considered his lifelong task as a philosopher: "to use the strength of the [epistemic] subject to break through the deception [Trug] of constitutive subjectivity" (ND xx).

Kirstein was never rich enough simply to write the checks himself, however, and education — teaching people who were rich enough, while also preparing future members of a newly enlightened American audience — was among the most essential of his lifelong tasks.

The maturation of corticothalamic circuitry is influenced by nicotinic receptors during development [50], [51] and thus may contribute to lifelong sex differences in tasks involving attention [52].

Schwartz, therefore, advises approaching the mastery of these tasks as a lifelong learner, which makes it all more palatable.

As I have mentioned in the previous section, the 5th writing task is about the lifelong learning, inviting the use of vocabulary related to learning and the selection of mental processes to construe the experience of lifelong learning.

There may be some unwillingness among the international health community to take on the enormous task of providing quality lifelong care for people with NCDs at a time when a sense of "combat fatigue" is becoming apparent in relation to the effort to provide lifelong treatment for people with HIV infection.