Sentence examples for thwarted quest from inspiring English sources
(She's drawn like Camus's characters – in a few sentences, redoubtable in her thwarted quest for justice, poisonous towards her surviving son).
Scarcely more intriguing is Michael Winterbottom's The Face of an Angel (Soda, 15), an inert, watery fictionalisation of the Meredith Kercher case, refashioned by the director as a somewhat self-congratulatory tale of one film-maker's thwarted quest for the heart of the story.
Joni is eighteen, a straight-A student about to leave for college, and you sense in her, behind the shyness and the curtain of long hair, a thwarted questing.
For Tashlin, that same outer child is the victim of inner turmoil, of inhibitions and neuroses that thwart his quest for fulfillment and render him unable to fit in.
Napoleon didn't let a little thing like height thwart his quest for world domination.
Britons may be further thwarted in their quest for a passport photograph that flatters them after an announcement in August by the United Kingdom Passport Service.
Once again the 27-year-old American swimmer had been thwarted in her quest to win the individual Olympic gold medal that had eluded her so long.
Perhaps because Lower Manhattan has relatively few hotels, perhaps because of tourists' interest in the ground zero site, I was thwarted in my quest to find rock-bottom rates downtown in late March and early April.
Many supply-siders are furious that a popular president, coming off the war in Iraq, is being thwarted in his quest for huge tax cuts by Republicans like Ms. Snowe.
Players will use the stylus to chart a course past all manner of obstacles and enemies that will try to thwart Link's quest.
He is often characterized as a stealthy challenger to Bill Gates--as Gates--aseader of a coalition of Silicon Valley firms that are out to thwart Microsoft's quest for global hegemony.
