Sentence examples for purposeful yet from inspiring English sources

Tho delicate of face and form, Sylvia was determined and purposeful, yet spiritual and gentle.

I watched a seasoned journalist gain the trust of the Michael Jackson family by her purposeful, yet respectful daily requests for statements.

The teacher must be skillful in creating an environment that is deliberate and purposeful yet guided and influenced by students' creativity and discovery.

Set against Waddesdon's shimmer, these purposeful yet muted figures offer a moment of calm repose.

That scene of Brünnhilde's awakening after a 20-year slumber presented a Wilsonian deviation from Wagner's scenario -- undoubtedly purposeful yet fundamentally damaging -- that had by then become typical.

It is like watching the purposeful yet effortless acrobatics of Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh in Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon.

Again and again, his stories introduce a lonely character in an alienating landscape and then, often by concentrating on some previously overlooked detail, transmute the feeling of isolation into something more like an artist's sensibility: a more purposeful and yet more playful state infused with an intensely observant appreciation of the secret beauty of life.

But the purposeful Root, yet to make fewer than 30 in his short ODI career, had an uncharacteristic rush of blood with 84 still needed when he made no contact with a pull shot at a turning delivery from Jadeja and was bowled.

The concertos sounded gorgeous, lyrical yet purposeful.

It was a simple yet purposeful routine that drained the day of details and complications.

Yet purposeful intervention even for these high stakes is not what Conservative ministers or rightwing thinktanks believe in.