Sentence examples for practical pursuit from inspiring English sources

More than a few are infusing what used to be an athletic, or purely practical, pursuit with eye-catching glamour and sex appeal.

This Ph.D. integrated his academic understanding of aesthetics with a practical pursuit in his life through his travels, entertaining engaging conversations and turning friends into family.

And if the difference is supposed to be that writing depends on talent, well so does every intellectual and practical pursuit.

This is a collective of scientists, psychologists, sociologists and architects "dedicated to the practical pursuit of creating, producing and examining new forms of thrilling experience", which is just what Merlin and I need.

Thus, a three-time prime minister, a visionary to whom peace for Israel was the only practical pursuit, who is a Nobel Prize laureate, was defeated by a fragmented legislature.

In 1957, in a letter to a persistent Observer reader, a "gentleman" from Sussex who accused her of being an armchair gardener, she describes how Sissinghurst's garden consumed her: "For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation".

In many cultures under the stimulus of the needs of practical pursuits, such as commerce and agriculture mathematics has developed far beyond basic counting.

Zhai Xiaobing, a graduate of the elite Peking University, had studied ancient Chinese literature and, like many of his generation, set aside the life of the mind for more practical pursuits: he worked at an investment fund.

Note that the practical pursuits that Vātsyāyana mentions as guided by second-order, reflective knowledge are: "righteousness (dharma), wealth, pleasure, [and] liberation".

Ramram hoped his son would follow in his profession, but Ramprasad showed no interest in practical pursuits.

Cornell's self-education and hard work would lead him to the conclusion that the greatest end for his philanthropy was in the need of colleges for the teaching of practical pursuits such as agriculture, the applied sciences, veterinary medicine and engineering and in finding opportunities for the poor to attain such an education.