Sentence examples for serious occupation from inspiring English sources

"This was a serious occupation.

What has become a serious occupation started with a tiny violin that was meant as an ornament.

Versailles became a place of surveillance for pensioned noblemen and their families whose only serious occupation was the traditional one of arms, and Louis provided ample opportunities for this pursuit.

He was always a great lover of theatre, but was later to say that it took him a long time to accept that writing plays was a serious occupation.

It can be traced back to the years after World War II, when Ossip Flechtheim [12], who introduced the term 'futurology', suggested that serious occupation with the future should go beyond the grasp of both ideology and utopia.

Identifiable group: Any group of people that can be distinguished by their shared characteristics such as their race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, serious disease, occupation, political beliefs, location, or social practices.

"To Be or Not to Be" Ernst Lubitsch takes on Hitler in this comic view, from 1942, of the serious business of the Polish resistance to German occupation.

So, while Twitter still has a bit of a reputation for being frivolous — and it is still a great place for frivolity — it makes sense that some of the people with the most serious of occupations are finally starting to come around to the value of the platform.

Alison Lurie, in her entertaining book "Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: Subversive Children's Literature," offers an idea: "Perhaps the phenomenon can be traced to the Romantic movement and the value put on childhood by writers like Blake and Wordsworth, which suggested to men and women of genius that writing for and about children was a serious and worthy occupation".

Will a serious battle against Occupation cause a deep rift in the Jewish People?

However, there is a more serious purpose to this occupation.