Sentence examples for mindless pursuit from inspiring English sources

"Public smoking is down another two points today, doggie raincoats are up an eighth and mindless pursuit of wealth continues its decline to close at $1.24.

In a tract published in Leipzig in 1707, we see early adopters of tea being reprimanded for "drinking themselves to death" in the mindless pursuit of fashion.

As long as you stay stuck in the mindless pursuit of empirical cause and effect, you will be lost in the darkness.

David Crane, its chief executive, admits that some consumers find the idea of saving power "un-American", but thinks that for companies like his the "mindless pursuit of megawatts" is a dead end.

Contrary to Enlightenment expectations, the uncontrolled pursuit of interests, whether by an individual or a class, proved just as proficient at disturbing social peace as the mindless pursuit of glory.

It depend how I feel, what is my state of mind.' It wasn't the mindless pursuit of couture - and the other trimmings of a celebrity lifestyle - that inspired Vega to act in the first place.

PAGE A18 COLLEGE ELECTIVE Some college students while away free hours in mindless pursuits.

The fact that people spend that time within the app on creative activities rather than engaging in more mindless pursuits is very encouraging to the team, Petschnigg said.

The shift into innovation may never happen in a country where most would rather spend their time in mindless, selfish pursuits than say, working on the great experiments that can benefit humanity as a whole.

The pursuit of mindless spectacle may have yielded disappointment; intelligent spectacle, it turns out, is another matter.

If you're the kind of person who skips through the stories about war and hardship that selfishly clog up the front of a newspaper, all in the pursuit of mindless tittle-tattle about snowboarding parakeets and record-breaking pumpkins, you might have read the story about an American man who died earlier this week after eating dozens of cockroaches and worms.