Sentence examples for underlying quest from inspiring English sources

If happiness is the underlying quest of our lives, it's only to be expected that it should feature rather large in films, too.

Stillman's sense of power is serious: within the febrile exclusivity of his glossy set is an underlying quest to clearly see the way in which the world works.

In a recent article in the magazine Photograph, Elisabeth Biondi, a former director of photography at The New Yorker, wrote of the project, "It captures the underlying quest in her photographic pursuits to record the general unease experienced by people of her generation as well as their pleasures and joys".

Often they amounted to no more than a forlorn stamp collection of animals one of everything living (or barely surviving) proof of man's dominance over nature.The Victorians were great natural scientists, but underlying their quest for knowledge was an assumption that they could easily regulate and unravel the behaviour of the animals they caged.

Shafran's subject is his wife and son, and their domestic routine, but underlying that is a quest for the sense of order that holds at bay the creeping chaos of the everyday.

The existence of classes of invariant functional forms across scales, individuals, and even systems and their models, has played an important role in the quest for principles underlying such complex phenomena [18].

An unclassifiable work, "The Nature of Order" offers the results of his quest to figure out what underlying principles make his patterns work.

It also led to a revival of the Renaissance quest for some ultimate religion underlying them all, though the geographical source of such a pristina theologia was generally thought to lie much farther to the east than ancient Egypt.

Thus, cells from embryo/fetus of Atg7−/− mice and certain cell/tissue-specific Atg7-knockout postnatal mice were extensively employed in the quest for understanding the mechanisms underlying the pleiotropic effects of ATG7 in development, physiology, and pathology (Table 1).

Still, unraveling the proximate mechanisms underlying manipulation of primary offspring sex ratio is an ongoing quest (Krackow 1995; Pike and Petrie 2003; Alonso-Alvarez 2006).

One promising approach is the development of instruments that allow one to quantify underlying dimensions of autism; this allows us to assess subclinical features of this disorder in relatives in the quest for genotype−phenotype associations (Duvall et al. 2007).