He craved the quiet security of academic life but repeatedly abandoned it for the risks and tumults of public office.
After our conversations are repeatedly abandoned because of interference and delays, Phil cycles six miles to the nearest phone box.
Zee Zee, Lee's angry and selfish father, repeatedly abandons Da-tsien and their children for the hardships and adventure of military life.
Repeatedly abandoned by a mother who tried to kill her, she was transferred to an adult prison on her 17th birthday.
Terry Gilliam is to finally shoot his long-awaited, repeatedly abandoned Don Quixote film after Christmas, the film-maker has told the Wrap.
By age 6, according to the account, Mr. Wilson had been repeatedly abandoned by his crack-addicted mother; he was eventually placed in a psychiatric hospital, where he told a worker that he wanted to die.
When the Thunder play Kevin Durant at small forward, Bonner can do damage from beyond the arc just like Shane Battier did in the Finals, when Serge Ibaka repeatedly abandoned him to help on penetration from Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.
Sure, John Gatins managed to somehow turn a grim script he'd repeatedly abandoned over more than a decade into an acclaimed studio film, "Flight," that netted him his first Oscar nomination.
He feels his dad repeatedly abandoned him and his twin sister, Dana, during their childhood because he could not resist committing petty crimes that kept getting him sent to jail.
She spent the first year working on the seven stories that would become her first book, Simple Recipes, devising a writing system that involved repeatedly abandoning and rewriting whole drafts.
It would not be hard to make the story of two repeatedly abandoned girls touching or sad, but Robinson is relentlessly careful in her word choices and leaves no room for generalized mood or sentiment.
