Sentence examples for purposeful while from inspiring English sources

He is calm and purposeful, while the ensemble often seems in a state of suspension.

That might be because Mr Salmond's administration looks competent and purposeful, while the Westminster government is implementing big spending cuts and presiding over a struggling economy.

That males have their own timetable will not come as a discovery to anyone who has ever spent much time in an American high school, where by 10th or 11th grade the girls are already grown-ups, poised and purposeful, while the boys, with their turned-around baseball caps, their brand-new earrings and their experimental growths of fuzz on chin and lip, are still clueless.

3. Is looking intense or purposeful while being female and walking in New York City an invitation to be made to feel vulnerable or unsafe?

Pelfrey, who for the first time in five starts did not allow a run in the first inning, pitched with confidence and a purposeful pace while earning his first victory since June 25 against the Minnesota Twins.

"Entity," a work for nine dancers that is divided into two sections — differentiation is dictated more by the music than by the relentless movement — begins as Antoine Vereecken dashes awkwardly onto the white stage and yanks his arms behind his torso, splaying his fingers in purposeful gawkiness while arching his back into a deeply curved sway.

Stark's story is an example of how we can strategically design our late-career life and work styles to establish a more purposeful life, while retaining the income and momentum we have attained after our decades gaining valuable expertise in our field.

In a recent study, squeezing muscles at the moment of your purposeful decision (while resisting a bad choice) seems to help people make healthier food choices.

In this study, physically inactive people wanted leisure-time physical activity to be purposeful and fun, while the active participants enjoyed exercise regardless of its purpose.

Perry has emphatically described "Chained to the Rhythm" as "purposeful pop," and while its prophecies are foreboding, they are also deeply unspecific.

Garrison and Akyol (2015) propose that interpersonal social communication inhibits Cognitive Presence, while purposeful scholarly discourse enhances it.