Sentence examples for was his vocation from inspiring English sources

Teaching was his vocation.

Norris studied painting in Paris for two years but then decided that literature was his vocation.

His experiences in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 14) decisively shaped his future, leading him to realize that the army was his vocation.

For a few years he studied painting at Heatherley's art school and tried to convince himself that this was his vocation.

Though Watkins later worked as a research assistant to Professor William Robson at the London School of Economics, he had decided by this time that neither the law, nor academic life, was his vocation.

He was not yet the Cooke of broadcasting fame and his celebrated Letter From America was in the future, but, perhaps in the mysterious way of a young man's creative intuition, he recognised that reporting America was his vocation.

Yer need not see what someone is doin' to know if it is 'is vocation, yer 'ave only to watch 'is eyes: a cook mixin' a sauce, a surgeon makin' a primary incision, a clerk completin' a bill of ladin', wear the same rapt expression, forgettin' 'emselves in a function.

Figuring out audiences is his vocation.

The epitome of his tainted inheritance, as he himself comes to realize, is his vocation.

This one certainty powered what Socrates understood to be his vocation, the thing for which he was prepared to die.

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.