Sentence examples for vocation would be from inspiring English sources
For a long time he wasn't quite sure what his vocation would be, but he pushed himself to excel, despite breakdowns in college.
Few young people tell their careers advisor their ideal vocation would be popping into the Johnsons' cottage every Friday lunchtime to turn on the central heating.
Writing, however, was already providing her with the tool of detachment to cope with her sense of estrangement, and she knew, as early as then, what her vocation would be: she wanted to grow up and "write one-half poetry and one-half autobiography".
It is much such a word, he says, "as vocate would be from vocation, orate from oration, or gradate from gradation".
By contrast, the avant-garde is a human attitude first and foremost not a literature, it involves a different relationship with the work and the reader (and one judges it according to the categorizing, heroic nature of this attitude); if someone, say, "is not born to it," in other words does not have this as his fundamental vocation, it would be ridiculous for him to start.
I also know that if a college's admissions dean really listened to her describe her vocation they would be tempted to admit her on the spot.
But then I realised this was a call to my heart - it would be my vocation".
Instead, he is in charge of his first N.F.L. team, more than two decades after he decided being a head coach in the N.F.L. would be his vocation.
The six stories detail literature as an addiction, rather than as a vocation: all the hero-sufferers would be saner and happier if they had never caught the literary bug.
The anachronisms rear up on Worthy Home Membership and Vocation, but a modern gloss would be that students need to prepare for the world of work, to understand how to manage their personal lives, and that life is improved by exposure to music and the arts.
But if responsibility were fused with conviction — if politics were a vocation in Washington today — the Hartzells would be represented at the negotiating table.
