Sentence examples for object of pursuit from inspiring English sources

The potentially catastrophic implications of the drama's MacGuffin (which, for once, is no random object of pursuit but a matter of grave import) are matched by the movie's hectic tone.

It's just one small step from "Sheba" to "She" -- the putative object of pursuit in the American writer Ann Jones's highly amusing LOOKING FOR LOVEDU: Days and Nights in Africa (Knopf, $25).

The object of pursuit has got away again.In this section Bullshot Thunderclouds and flying tigers The heart of the matter Sorry, not hungry In pursuit ReprintsMr Holmes is best known for his masterly biographies of Shelley and Coleridge, but many other ghosts have tempted him.

Rand starts by describing value or "the good," in classical fashion, as the object of pursuit: "that which one acts to gain and/or keep" (1961b, p. 16).

In the 1993 film Farewell My Concubine, by Chen Kaige, Peking opera serves as the object of pursuit for the protagonists and a backdrop for their romance.

The union of moving toward an object of pursuit may possibly be interpreted as the masculine force of love, the separation of moving away from an object of avoidance may possibly be interpreted as the feminine force of fear, and wholesome freedom transcends a fixed direction.

The apparent emptiness of the objects of pursuit, and of the villains against whom he strives, serves as a diversion, distracting us from the recognition of Bond's fundamental and constitutive blankness.

And these goods, which in your opinion are to be designated as superior to pleasure, and are the true objects of pursuit, are mind and knowledge and understanding and art and the like.

Now, I'm not saying capitalists have no place in a vibrant economy, but we have allowed these bejeweled incubi to convince us that we would be nothing without them, that profit and riches are the noblest objects of pursuit, that worker equals stupid, and that a united working class is the greatest threat to Freedom since, well, ever.

But when her son, Daigan, was born the adventure seemed to end abruptly, and Luwana's job was, in part, to help Alexis see her son not just as an obstacle in her pursuit of love and attachment but as an object of that pursuit.

It's confusing, for Adam, but it's also awesome, since it makes him an object of sexual pursuit.