Sentence examples for private hobbies from inspiring English sources

Today, cooking remains one of Walken's private hobbies, and he rarely eats out.

Throughout his life as a self educated man he pursued a wide range of professional interests and private hobbies with focus and dedication.

But if when taking office on November 3rd the newly reelected Latvian prime minister reveals that his private hobbies are snakecharming or firewalking, few European counterparts would find it surprising.

Nonscientists often feel we are indulging in our private hobbies, paid for with public money.

Briggs, whose chief private hobby was collecting historic ceramics, built up a large collection of Maoist pottery, which he displayed in the windows of his Lewes home.

Belief has inspired so many of the greatest works in the classical canon, yet is often seen today as a private hobby, said the Southbank's artistic director Jude Kelly, who hopes that the ambitious festival will bring new audiences to the centre and, with a range of music from Tallis to Mahler, Penderecki to Bach, make them fall in love with classical music and keep coming.

Prior to the series, Jackson had thought of her singing as merely a private hobby.

Bush's paintings were a private hobby before they were leaked to the public a few years ago by a hacker.

There it is, that glorious doughy fold with a hint of eggy effluvia, like a woman's most private moist hobby lobby mixed with the scent of the Venice canal.

Nonetheless, thanks to modern technology, the gossip about ballet dancers' private lives and hobbies should be accessible to their fans by visiting their idols' Facebook and Twitter pages — but not from the sacred stage before a performance.

"What also sets him apart is that he was a man who was doing this entirely as a private and personal hobby.