Sentence examples for own vocation from inspiring English sources

Questions of political commitment also hover around Mr. Heaney's frequent re-examinations of his own vocation.

Damon is well cast as the conceited, whitebread candidate, troubled by an aversion to his own vocation.

(Roehrig said that she dates her own vocation to the gratifying success of an oral report on King Tut that she gave in the seventh grade).

With its movement away from ego and vanity, this brave, deceptively modest ­story tempts you to see a bit of the priest in Richard Bausch's own vocation as a writer.

But if Seymour's own vocation as a writer is risk-free, it might be argued he has bought the right to a more sedate lifestyle after his years as a reporter covering events in Borneo, Vietnam, Israel and Northern Ireland.

In her last letter, from the convent, Eleanor had written that her own vocation had always seemed strangely contingent upon his, but perhaps that was wrong; finding a vocation was like saving one's soul.

The problem is not in asking others what they do and sharing our own vocations, but in taking the answer as a foundation marker of a person's character and identity.

Kenny traces her own music vocation back to New York City, where she spent part of her childhood and sang in the Little Gaelic Singers choir.

CONSIDER the story of the woman who barely paused her thriving show-business career to have children and went back to work almost directly from the delivery room, still learning to juggle the needs of parenthood, her profession and a spouse with his own demanding vocation.

Spark's artistic mission may have made vigilance against "takeover" a necessity, but where in her daring body of work is there a willingness to execute one last turn of the screw — to see her own particular vocation as yet another species of earthly vanity?

Spark's artistic mission may have made vigilance against "takeover" a necessity, but where in her daring body of work is there a willingness to execute one last turn of the screw to see her own particular vocation as yet another species of earthly vanity?