Sentence examples for spend lifetimes from inspiring English sources

Authors and intellectuals spend lifetimes trying to earn a coveted place inside.

Joyce took years over the meticulous planning of his own masterpiece, Ulysses, finically extracting every possible Homeric parallel, gleefully enjoining the "professors" to spend lifetimes deciphering the multifarious allusions.

It was a richly flourishing period for art and craft, but what is left of it remains in pieces -- literally, in a great many cases -- and art historians and archaeologists spend lifetimes trying to puzzle them back together.

(Harari tends to a one-size-fits-all account of modernism, blowing past the truth that "styles" in the arts and humanities mark very specific political-poetic positions that real humanists spend lifetimes untangling and comparing).

There are so many things to do within the city limits, from Tuesday night pub runs and yoga in the park to dining at one of our great restaurants or wandering through an art gallery, and our state is so vast that when you venture outside of Anchorage you could spend lifetimes exploring and still not experience everything that makes Alaska so unique.

(Harari tends to a one-size-fits-all account of modernism, blowing past the truth that "styles" in the arts and humanities mark very specific political-poetic positions that real humanists spend lifetimes untangling and comparing). When Harari deals with bigger events in modern cultural history, the micro-claims get even wackier and the macro-claims more frantic and arrogant.

This is testable, and many academics have spent lifetimes doing just that.

Marketing now adopts "complex, essential social ideas, for which many people have spent lifetimes fighting," Klein explains.

Investors may lose money, but entrepreneurs can lose companies they've spent lifetimes building.

• Q: How much have you spent, lifetime, in court costs?

This is why Zen masters spend a lifetime, or several lifetimes, learning the art of it.