Sentence examples for primary pursuit from inspiring English sources

And there is, too, a smart and level-headed primer on the hard and sometimes horrifying business of hunting animals for food — "the primary pursuit of humans," Shaw writes, "for more than a million years".

He is especially conscious of the dangers facing those whose primary pursuit concerns being sympathetic, theopathic, and morally perceptive.

And when the energy in one is sufficiently strong, the orientation becomes the person's "primary pursuit": it demands accretion of pleasure.

Just as the Preface to its first edition had proposed, the ultimate success of Newton's theory of gravity made the identification of the fundamental forces of nature and their characterization in laws the primary pursuit of physics.

But being congratulated and wished well at a supermarket fish counter is presumably better than being ignored, because it suggests you are still a success at whatever your primary pursuit might be.

The conversation quickly turned to soul-winning Grace Baptisoul-winning Graceit.

Sympathy and theopathy replace imagination and ambition as "primary pursuits," the fundamental modes of experience and interaction.

For the person for whom sympathy and theopathy are primary pursuits, imagination and ambition remain modes of interaction, but modes that are transformed.

The terror attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., beyond the human tragedy, caused real and serious economic property losses, disrupted business patterns and travel and distracted Americans from their primary pursuits.

As a child, his primary pursuits outside of getting an education, included mountain climbing and skiing.

We also witnessed the America's Cup Races and visited a sheep farm, sailing and sheep being primary pursuits of New Zealanders.