Sentence examples for misguided pursuit from inspiring English sources

His misguided pursuit of the money becomes a funny-sad quest.

But it might be a misguided pursuit, based on a faulty premise.

I am uncertain whether it is the tonnelier making barrels in a distant shed or a destructive cerebral event caused by a misguided pursuit of the heroic.

In spite of a productive and intense 50 year research career in academic medicine, with semi-retirement I became aware of an increasing need to offer penance for a youthful and immature, frequently misguided, pursuit of academic values, particularly doing my Princeton years in the 1950s.

In the May-June 2017 issue of the Harvard Business Review a multi-part section on "managing for the long term" began with a somewhat polemical article arguing that focusing on maximising shareholder was a misguided pursuit for executives.

One, people are perverts set on finding new and inventive ways of fucking themselves up, usually in the misguided pursuit of pleasure.

These are the very values which the terrorists trampled upon in pursuit of their misguided quest.

"I have been wondering for some time whether this administration suffers from myopia as it continues with a misguided focus in pursuit of homeland security," Mr. Conyers said.

But, as Hall details in this meticulously researched piece, Simon's methods were highly questionable and what looked like heroic determination begins to seem like a deeply misguided and narcissistic pursuit of answers at the expense of truth.

She rightly exposed the pursuit of misguided, domestically driven policies as self-defeating in the mid to long term.

So it's important that passion be grounded in reality, since many passionate causes are also irrational and misguided, especially in romantic pursuit.