Sentence examples for something of a quest from inspiring English sources

By now, seeing inside an unopened scroll had become something of a quest for Seales.

Instead, we follow Claire's search for her son, and what seemed like a dystopia resolves itself into something of a quest novel — a journey of endurance, courage and the occasional miracle.

That was just one of many times Ms. Ferguson was struck by the length of Victoria's shadow, and it fueled a desire, which became something of a quest, to put Victoria on the big screen.

Representative Pete Sessions, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Rules Committee, hinted that Republicans were unlikely to give up without at least another round since they see their campaign against the health care law as something of a higher quest.

He seems to have made it something of a personal quest to improve our well-being through government action.

Once, in my single days, I spent no fewer than three straight hours scouring for titillating female-friendly porn online, until it became something of a noble quest, like journeying through the Arabian Desert in search of the Cave of Wonders.

It became something of a holy grail quest.

His tale is something of a goth hero's quest — "I am a bad man with a very black heart," he begins — that leads him into the mountains, where his fellow climbers, trapped in bad weather, "pop up all over the mountain, always... swept away by mist before reappearing somewhere else".

The epic quest was something of a shipwreck.

A Variety critic tells me that Sergio does catch something of a new mood, mournful but in quest of something to admire.

Over the course of several hours watching them plan, rehearse and broadcast, it becomes abundantly clear that Neville is something of a control freak whose enthusiasm and quest for perfection borders on the endearingly psychotic.