Sentence examples for like pursuit from inspiring English sources

Much of it is a monotonous look at the bustle of urban life — with too many moments of amateur improvisation — and, like "Pursuit," it's better suited to the men.

But like "Pursuit of Happyness," he said, the movie could earn total ticket sales of more than six times its opening — a level that might yet extend Mr. Smith's winning streak.

In this way, Cudi's closing of the festival made sense; the lonely stoner persona that helped him break out, in 2009, has indirectly created a market for most of the anti-gangster rap featured at the fest, and the emo bread crumbs that he left with songs like "Pursuit of Happiness" and "Soundtrack to My Life" are still being followed by acts like Logic, Childish Gambino, and Chance the Rapper.

Actants are models that encode narrative participants as agents and patients, thus allowing particular discourse entities to be inserted into global action structures like Pursuit of a goal.

His edits of tracks like "Pursuit" and "Trans" trimmed off  the rough edges and put them firmly in a context for moving bodies, not just assaulting them.

Haynes told Jack Belden, the Life journalist, that he "used to like pursuits better but now he likes bombers", and other airmen confirmed to Belden that Haynes handled bombers as easily as fighters.

Ms. Chase never achieved stardom, but she found her voice writing about what she portrayed as her "I Love Lucy -like pursuit of it.

CRAIG WECKWERTH and Keith Kelley didn't care that they were flirting with danger in their Ahab-like pursuit of the regally regarded walleye, Minnesota's official fish.

The unfolding embarrassment at the network poses a host of questions — not the least of which is how the network's executives justified their Javert-like pursuit of Clinton's extramarital affairs, given their boss's own repeated sexual misconduct.

"She wants what she wants and she doesn't want to stop until she gets it even if it means she's going to carry people along in a kind of Ahab-like pursuit of something, to their detriment".Mr Thomas himself comes across as a thoroughly American figure.

But even if Mr. Burden is eager to avoid catastrophe, his simple garden railroad set-up -- unlike the mind-bogglingly intricate bridges on exhibit in Chelsea -- is for him an almost Zen-like pursuit, as far from danger as he can stand.