Sentence examples for practising a craft from inspiring English sources
So again, the Thrasymachean ruler is not genuinely practising a craft.
So Thrasymachus' selfish tyrant cannot be practising a craft; the real ruler properly understood is the one who expertly serves his weaker subjects.
All these arguments rely on the hypothesis that the 'real ruler' is practising a craft [technê], and appeal to various structural features of crafts to establish what real ruling consists in.
Start practising a foreign language.
She worked as a cleaner for years, but her dream was always to become a hairdresser, practising the craft she learned as a young girl in her home country.
──And now I am a beast-man to my malevolent contemporaries: A Moslem murdering pagans to death by sword in the glorious name of Allah, a Christian burning a heretic who says man grew from the limbs of an ape, a tribalistic shaman practising the craft of the witch against the white devils, a Hindoo disemboweling a man for denying his caste duties.
Ryan Hart is one of the world's best fighting video games players - he spends 10 hours a day practising his craft and holds three Guinness World Records.
Perhaps the most attractive aspect is to see people proudly practising their craft rather than finding some substitute for work such as stripping, swimming the Channel or crime.
The history of the town (as its status has been till recently) is displayed at Bantock House, and the Bilston Craft Gallery provides the opportunity to look at and practise an extraordinary range of contemporary crafts.
Perhaps it was Said's tragedy that he should practise his craft as a great literary critic in an age which has had no patience with the subtleties of language, and no serious appetite for the nuances of a complicated idea.
