Sentence examples for vocation in a from inspiring English sources

In the domain of vocational identity, theoretical and empirical research streams have generally confirmed that two subdomains of vocational identity exist: one referring to the actual vocation in a broad sense and one referring to a person's workplace (also referred to as "organizational identity"; e.g., Cohen [1991]; Lee et al. [2000]; Wallace [1993]).

"I had to disguise my literary vocation in a way that the machista environment would accept it".

In retrospect, however, Sontag appears to have found a possible cinematic vocation in a film she made between "Brother Carl" and "Unguided Tour".

But the life he presents to the world is that of an anchorite, pursuing his vocation in a kind of holy cell.

While the other children continued on in pursuit of mundane pleasures, Mr. Kelly found his vocation in a purer and more innocent form of gratification.

"Having a system which places men with a priestly vocation in a place where they deny their sexuality, whether it be heterosexual or homosexual, is bound to create situations," wrote Jeremy Ross, from the town of Ashtead, near London.

But McConnell has, of late, found himself grappling with the meaning and relevance of his vocation in an age of image overload.

As a consequence, I pursued a clinical vocation in histopathology, a discipline that couples exposure to the sights and smells of the autopsy room with a daily journey into the often beautiful, sometimes ugly world of healthy and diseased human tissues under the microscope.

The hours flew by and Cunningham had a new vocation: "In any free moment, look about and draw".

He vehemently condemned the enslavement of Africans (and gave a philosophical voice to the slave); he challenged his era's views on religious celibacy and forced vocations (in a tear-jerking pseudo-memoir of a sexually abused nun); and he entertained the possibility that his cherished materialism denied us free will (in his novel "Jacques the Fatalist").

He did this, as writers will, in pursuit of the story he wanted to tell: how his brother's ascent to intellectual dominance forced him into a lesser role as attendant observer, but how, in that lesser, watching role, he eventually found his vocation in life, a vocation defined by its disabilities.