Sentence examples for long purposeful from inspiring English sources

Before an act of violence culprits would walk aggressively, their arms static by their sides, taking long purposeful strides.

One night in August, Nathan K., a 29-year-old father of three from Waco, stretched back in his blue recliner and took a long, purposeful drag from his pipe.

Walking on the balls of her feet, taking long, purposeful strides, she pitches her torso forward, like a ship's mast into a storm — the storm being the love Sonya feels for Astrov (the compelling Mark Strong), a local doctor, whom Serebryakov often calls upon for a consultation but never manages to see.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla .— Joe Girardi's strides were long and purposeful as he approached the mound in the sixth inning Friday night, as if he were late for an appointment.

Only when we can remove the shade of death from these services can we make them available to everyone who may be struggling to live long and purposeful lives with pain and disability.

He leads me to them, his stride long and purposeful – he's a former PE teacher and well over six feet tall – and extends his arm as though inviting me to admire a Renaissance fresco: "There, the single most successful thing in the building.

At the start of the holiday film phenomenon, the collective national trauma of WWII cast a long and purposeful shadow over these films' optimistic message (derived from Dickens' A Christmas Carol) of goodwill towards all.

Too long, yes, but purposeful.

Have we, as Americans, forgotten what our nation was created to be, or have we ceased to trust those principles out of which it was conceived: our tested judicial system, which has served so well for so long, and the purposeful and sound reasons for checks and balances in government?

Magnificent guitar players and haunting singers, for this latest record Tinariwen's purposeful long-distance groove was added to by like minds: Nels Cline from Wilco and Tunde Adembimpe and Kyp Malone from TV On The Radio.

This country needs a purposeful long-term energy strategy that reduces its dependence on foreign oil and deals with climate change and all the other air-quality issues that are directly related to the burning of fossil fuels like oil and coal.