Sentence examples for purposeful he from inspiring English sources

"I don't think it was purposeful," he said.

Looking fit and purposeful, he declared: "I am not going to resign of my own accord".

Breezy but purposeful, he flirted with an array of extended harmonies, steadily abstracting the form of the song.

"My friends, Iraq is filled with professional soldiers, patriotic reservists and Guard members who long for a mission that is planned and purposeful," he told the Democrats assembled at the FleetCenter in Boston.

He leads me to them, his stride long and purposeful – he's a former PE teacher and well over six feet tall – and extends his arm as though inviting me to admire a Renaissance fresco: "There, the single most successful thing in the building.

"You do get the sense that if the work is not purposeful, he won't stick around.

He is smart and purposeful, and although he can discuss García Lorca's poems, Buckminster Fuller's discourse on a Styrofoam cup, El Greco's paintings, and global corporate strategy—he generally presents himself as a hapless bumbler one goof away from the poorhouse or, at least, ignominy.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla .— Joe Girardi's strides were long and purposeful as he approached the mound in the sixth inning Friday night, as if he were late for an appointment.

"Birkerts uses the skills he has honed as a literary critic with calm efficiency, probing his past in the same purposeful way he might take on the latest novel by Anne Tyler, Nicholas A. Basbanessaidid here last year.

With purposeful speed, he retrieves the carryall and stands firm and unafraid behind the low shrubs — there are benefits to being of small size, after all, he thinks.

Determined to live a strong and purposeful life, he worked hard to build himself up, later becoming a medic and lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne.