Sentence examples for very quest from inspiring English sources

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Especially in his later films, Godard filmed his very quest for light and composition, nowhere more obsessively than in "Hail Mary".

Certainly, Oliver Wendell Holmes could not have conceived of a more ironic fate for his beloved stereoscopy; namely, that the very quest for depth should dwindle into a grim guarantee of superficiality.

De Palma's very quest for authority, his impossible dream of the total and absolute image that would fulfill his vision of Hollywood glory, is the untapped psychodramatic undercurrent of his films.

Some radical anthropologists even argue that when it comes to studying the poor and powerless, the very quest for objectivity is unethical, a screen behind which anthropologists conveniently duck when the politics gets complicated, thereby unwittingly colluding with the oppressor.

More important, the very quest for a capitulation, and the endless talking about it, may make it less likely that we'll see it — if everyone is waiting for everyone else to panic so they can jump in and buy, then it's hard to get the selling frenzy that everyone's looking for, and that, oddly, traders seem to want.

The movie's subject is the connection between absolute power and absolute pleasure — with the implication that the very quest for pleasure is bound up with morally perilous power relations, and that the pleasure of power is inextricable from the pleasure of inflicting pain.

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Over the last year, Kanye has been on a very public quest for legitimacy, seeking out the establishment with the aim of entering it—he's now a respected fashion designer and people go to his concerts as much for the cultural commentary he screams from behind a mask as the music.

We loved making the pilgrimage to Bay Ridge for this very special quest.

Study religion and science for what each has to offer in our very human quest for both knowledge and spirituality.

They all begin their very long quest to return it to the forge where it was made, and so permanently destroy its potential for evil.

Just as the 1990s dawned, the Smashing Pumpkins began their ultimately very successful quest to make what their bassist, D'Arcy, called "beautiful music that varies" out of many-hued guitar tones that cracked and frazzled.

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