Only occasionally did Mr. Gomes even approach the transcendent virtuosity that remains so irresistible about Paganini — a passage of quick, small jumps brought a wave of delighted audience applause — but you could feel both his serious quest to extend his range as a dancer and the unpretentious innocence that makes him so valuable an artist.
A week after Tiger Woods's quest to extend his winning streak commanded record television ratings, the P.G.A. Tour leader board turned viewer unfriendly today at the Nissan Open, where the weekend will become a scramble to see who can end losing streaks or notch first career victories.
Reading may not be taking any points but they deserve their share of the plaudits for a committed contribution to a game from which any reward would have been a bonus in their quest to extend their top-flight stay to a second season.
And even more importantly, Americans across all generations have been on a "rights" quest, continually extending rights, progressing prosperity, and increasing free expression.
Director Harmony Korine describes how he made Spring Breakers and turned four college girls' quest to extend spring break forever (bitches!) into a hypercolored ecstasy trip through the teenage psyche.
A powerful mix of benign patriotism, angry nationalism, and the ruthless quest to extend the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist party has intoxicated both the nation and the political establishment.
THE quest for realism extends to the acting.
Chiara, who is a writer for Vogue Italia and Casa Vogue, was first introduced to Bellini while on the job, but his quest for knowledge extends well beyond the office.
The context of my journey through the homophobic landscape of religion is fundamentalist Christianity and Mormonism, but this quest for freedom extends to every LGBTQ person, regardless of kindred or creed.
"In our filtered, facetuned world, the quest for perfection extends to even the most intimate parts of the female anatomy, and it can't be a coincidence that the only time we ever encounter vaginas is in porn films generally made for men, by men," she says.
