Sentence examples for undertake a quest from inspiring English sources

As Richard Doyle, a professor of English and information sciences and technology at Penn State, writes in his afterword, "When you begin reading the 'Exegesis,' you undertake a quest with no shortcuts or cheat codes".

Two sympathetic protagonists, Charlotte Norbury, who is trying to save her brother from the vampiric sect, and Arthur Howland, a rich young American who wishes to help her, undertake a quest that takes them across Europe.

A trio of renegade rodsmiths undertake a quest to net Earth's trickiest catches, with the first episode taking the assembly of anglers to British Columbia in search of the elusive Coho salmon.

Patrick had undertaken a quest at which she was far more likely to fail than to succeed.

The Return; What Belongs to You; The Visiting Privilege In The Return (Viking), Hisham Matar undertakes a quest for his father, imprisoned by Gaddafi.

"0 0″ (Israel) A short about a quirky, overweight teenager who undertakes a quest to break out of his suburban wasteland existence and become a superstar sports journalist.

Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County") wrote "Man from Nebraska" (Jan . 26 Second Stage), with Reed Birney as a churchgoing Midwesterner who undertakes a quest to restore his faith.

"Hammered" by "Woman Before an Aquarium," Hampl undertook a quest for what immediately became her personal holy grail, a vessel bearing not the blood of Christ but its secular equivalent, as ineffable, mystical and impossible as transubstantiated wine.

She undertakes a quest to recover a witch's spoon stolen by an evil marquess and picks up a band of oddball friends along the way: a wyvern (like a dragon, but not), a marid (a sea jinni from Arabic folklore), a lantern that communicates by burning letters into its own panels.

The usual procedure for obtaining spirit help was to undertake a vision quest, in which a person would go to some lonely spot to fast and beg for aid; men might also mortify the flesh, though women usually did not.

It takes a special kind of courage to undertake a moral quest -- knowing the overwhelming forces arrayed against you, knowing the sheer inertia of a system long in place.