Sentence examples for past pursuits from inspiring English sources

It summons a century's worth of ghosts of hedonism past: pursuits of pleasure as they were practiced in pre-code Hollywood films, pre-AIDS sex clubs, pre-Stonewall drag shows, on the pages of pre-Playboy sex magazines and at pre-"Lion King" midnight showings of Walt Disney's "Fantasia," where half the audience was on acid.

All of my past pursuits seemed so vapid and narcissistic and egoic.

He stares off at times, and functions mostly as a sounding board for Erie to regale him with tales of past pursuits.

If Orlando's past pursuit of Grant Hill, Tracy McGrady and Tim Duncan is any indication, welcoming parties, billboard advertisements and celebrity introductions are expected.

One of the centre-left Social Democrat's disadvantages in his past pursuit of Germany's top political job was to have neither Bild, a newspaper with some 12m readers, nor its Sunday edition on his side.

In the past, pursuit of high ethanol concentration is the main goal for wine fermentation.

Locke's resolution of the seeming paradox comes by way of recognizing that "[o]ur poets have now stopped speaking for the Negro" the sort of representativeness characteristic of past aesthetic pursuits and instead now "speak as Negroes" (NN 48).

Will.i.am doesn't skip a beat in pushing past musical pursuits.

It's a description that fits Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor whose past political pursuits in that state have weighed down his current presidential ambitions.

Finally, they are coming to terms with this past, in pursuit of a new political future.

A taste of history Perhaps unsurprisingly, there has been no shortage of historians who are dedicated to cooking up the past, in pursuit of the tastes and weaknesses of our forebears.