Sentence examples for long itinerant from inspiring English sources

Worried that the city's allures were distracting him from poetry, he began a long, itinerant tour of the Mediterranean coast, taking on an absurd variety of jobs: grape harvester, dockworker, campground watchman, trinket-shop proprietor.

There followed a couple of D.U.I. arrests, several rehab stints, eating-disorder rumors, oft-reported romantic and financial troubles, a consistently unstable family life — and then, in recent years, a long, itinerant stretch spent mostly in London, with hops to Russia, Greece, and now, apparently, Dubai.

The 30-year-old woman said legitimisation would deprive her of a home and studio, while going against her independent squatting ethos.Paris has long attracted itinerant artists.

In 1997, when the New Jersey Performing Arts Center was completed, the orchestra, long an itinerant waif, got not only a home base but also a hall that's among the best in the country.

For the musicians of the Bronx Symphony, the question is how long an itinerant orchestra that performs for nothing and rehearses in a cramped high school music room with lousy acoustics can get by in an age of competition — one in which even small arts groups have hired professionals to raise money and court corporate sponsorships.

The traveling sales industry is particularly appealing to traffickers because the crews rarely stay in one place for long and itinerant sales workers are considered independent contractors.

There were, of course, many distinctions between Elvis Presley, who seemed to find his only security inside the walls of the home where he lived and died, and Michael Jackson, who was, at the end, an itinerant, long gone from the Neverland compound the world associated with him.

Tennis has the longest and most itinerant season of any major sport: more than sixty tournaments on six continents over eleven months.

In these first years of scholarly pursuit, Gassendi shuttled between Aix and Digne (the provincial capital) and so began a life-long pattern of itinerant travel.

His itinerant life long ago earned him the nickname the Gypsy of the Blues.

Throughout the twenties and thirties, Vernon alternated magic shows, some successful, with long periods as an itinerant silhouette cutter.