Sentence examples for physical quest from inspiring English sources

A physical quest for enlightenment was forbidden so I pursued a hallucinogenic one".

Americans have always been on the physical quest of "Manifest Destiny," which led us west and today leads us farther into the stars.

This is the residue of what I feel to be a spiritual and physical quest for a freedom that we can all share.

Men come to know themselves and achieve transcendence through physical suffering, a quest with strong sadomasochistic overtones.

The book, about the physical and metaphorical quest of father and son clockwork mice, broke through to an adult as well as a children's audience.

Consider that wills once existed for the sole purpose of ceding ownership of physical objects, and quests for immortality - things like cryonics, transhumanism, fountains of youth and religion (ahem) - remained firmly planted in the realms of fantasy, but as the lines between our real and digital worlds continue to blur, these customs have changed.

Some people bloom in their quest for physical improvement, others wither, and a few are completely destroyed.

His book, "Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery" (Princeton, 1999), portrays the quest for physical beauty as an ugly human epic.

What binds Burgess's marvellously realised dystopian vision into material and moral coherence is the underlying narrative, with its ancient and familiar tropes of trial by ordeal, visits to the underworld, a magic sword, physical doubleness and the quest for spiritual wholeness.

High-quality epitaxial films are mandatory for investigations of physical properties, foremost the quest for mechanisms driving superconductivity.

Fitness fanatics in the U.K. will soon have another gadget to aid them in their quest for physical supremacy: Motorola has just announced that their MOTOACTV fitness tracker will hit stores on December 1.