Recently widowed and seeking purpose in his life, Scalzi's protagonist enlists in the military so that he can have his consciousness transferred to a younger, genetically modified body, and defend human colonies on the dangerous outskirts of the universe.
Two very different men are capable of practising it: Gilbert Norrell, a reclusive, humourless scholar in his late middle age, and Jonathan Strange, a charismatic young landed gent with a whiff of Withnail, seeking purpose in his wayward life.
People are ultimately seeking purpose, so if you can deliver on that as a leader, you can deliver a successful pursuit of happiness.
Similarly, owning an email account is significantly related to using the Internet for reproductive health information seeking purpose, with those reporting that they own email account also reporting using the Internet for reproductive health information seeking.
Fifty years of a policy that has not generated the originally sought purposes can be called a failure".
The scientist tries to understand physical nature, as the theologian seeks purpose in nature.
Taha el Shazli, a doorkeeper's son unfairly rejected from police officer training, seeks purpose and self-respect in radical Islamism.
