Sentence examples for odd quest from inspiring English sources

"Life being a kind of dream, an odd quest, a strange hopefulness that inhabits people".

The Swimmer In one of Cheever's finest works, a suburban man undertakes an odd quest to swim home via his neighbours' swimming pools.

The odd quest has essentially become Voigt's day job he accepts donations through his website and the 51-year-old has described receiving exclusive access to police evidence vaults and maintaining a network of confidential sources in the law enforcement community.

Odd quests against specific words and uses were cropping up even in the 1600s, and they reveal the modern-day grammar warriors who campaign against, say, "finalize" to be tomorrow's ridiculous footnote.

Newman: The outcry was fierce over the initial reward on the underrepresented War Mode quest, the 400 ilevel item from the Against Overwhelming Odds quest.

When Martin Herrenknecht and I arrived on foot one morning, trailing a team of engineers in blaze-orange smocks, we looked like members of some odd mythological quest.

It's odd that their quest for justice has led the various regulators and prosecutors to big Wall Street firms.

For long stretches, he proceeds as though the subject were not rats but his odd, self-imposed quest.

One odd result: That quest is prompting some hospitals to buy even more of them. .

Snails lay eggs, and Ms. Stewart has dreams of selling their pearl-like pellets to chefs who keep up a constant quest for odd new ingredients.

Sure, that scene with the cherry is infamous – and responsible for many teenage girls making very odd faces on a quest to imitate her – but Audrey's entire wardrobe is a fashion-approved.