Sentence examples for real-world responsibilities from inspiring English sources

Off they traipse to the mall, where Earn's real-world responsibilities are doomed to take a back seat.

The most vivid character in this début novel is not the men themselves, with their real-world responsibilities, but the girls who rule their imaginations.

I think the student house – alcohol, free time, lack of real-world responsibilities, jealousies engendered by relationships, conflicting behaviours – might be the best parallel to life in a touring band.

Most memorably, she describes how easily students can feel defeated by their real-world responsibilities and by the demands of college and come to conclude that they just don't belong there after all.

While you've been spending time with family and friends and enjoying some well-earned relaxation, the Internet has been tirelessly pumping out material for you to mindlessly click and drool over while avoiding any real-world responsibilities.

Alone with no other library patrons near, I could spread open several articles at once on the floor and follow the thoughts of past psychometric sages late into the night with great interest and content, with complete abandonment of time and my real-world responsibilities outside of those yellow-paged tomes and narrow library aisles.

William Kristol describes the Republicans as the party of "real-world responsibility".

Real-world responsibility apparently means fiscal, legal, military and, indeed, executive irresponsibility.

I don't understand how tax cuts for the wealthy (while ignoring the poor) and lying to get into a war they could not even manage properly are indicative of "real-world responsibility".

Let's take a look at some of this "real-world responsibility" over the last 40 years: Richard M. Nixon prolonged a pointless conflict in Vietnam, spied on his political adversaries, presided over a scandal-ridden administration and resigned in disgrace.

Having controlled the executive branch for 28 of the last 40 years, Republicans tend to think of themselves as the governing party — with some of the arrogance and narrowness that implies, but also with a sense of real-world responsibility.