How To Use Avocation In A Sentence
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But Guckert's avocation is the least-creepy aspect of this story.
03/06/2005
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More than a few antiques dealers start out as indefatigable collectors who make the decision to turn their avocation into a vocation.
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The bile directed at us in the column shows a desire to hurt me personally and to make my employer suffer for my avocation.
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He understood the importance of organized political parties and pursued politics as a career, not simply an avocation.
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He abandoned his regular occupation and concentrated on his avocation.
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Historical writings by vocational as well as avocational historians are rife with such writing, usually for the purpose of furthering the writer's agenda.
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No avocations of professional labour will make him abandon their wholesome study; in the midst of a thousand cares he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons -- to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit.
The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson
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On the gravestones around Melrose Abbey are many names with the avocation added -- John Smith, builder; William Hogg, mason -- but many with the word portioner.
An Autobiography
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And maybe you'll have some energy left over to indulge your avocation until it can become your vocation.
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Men with avocational interests in military affairs organized uniformed militia units, voluntarily meeting to train and purchasing their own uniforms.
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Some people have several vocations and avocations; some have worked in numerous industries; and some are interested in moving to a different profession.
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My main avocation, almost a second vocation, is farming.
Daniel L. McFadden - Autobiography
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In savage tribes which have suddenly come under the domination of a civilized race – a domination which usually means not only the cessation of tribal warfare, but a rapid decrease in the raw material of the chase – the male, debarred from the exercise of his former avocations, frequently refuses to do anything at all.
Marriage as a Trade
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`I often wonder, Deirdre, why you did not choose the sea instead of the Law as your avocation.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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For the past several years I've made an avocational study of Jesus and his followers in their historical context, namely the two hundred years from 100 BCE to 100 CE, with particular attention to the question of what we can reasonably think Jesus said versus what others said he said or said about him.
I'm Down With Jesus -- It's Christ That Gives Me Problems
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Everything seemed to go on as usual in the quiet, opulent house; the good-natured mistress pursuing, quite unsuspiciously, her bustling idleness, and daily easy avocations; the daughter absorbed still in one selfish, tender thought, and quite regardless of all the world besides, when that final crash came, under which the worthy family fell.
Vanity Fair
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The martial, or fighting arts are among humankind's oldest avocations.
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He usually wore, in compliment to his nursing duties, an apron in front; but, as his various avocations pressed hard upon his time, and as his own personal outfit was ever the last to be attended to, Tiff's nether garments had shown traces of that frailty which is incident to all human things.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
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As a child of first-generation Russian immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue the arts, but only as an avocation: her brother studied music, and she, dance.
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I miss my chosen avocation, which is that of minstrel.
The Day of the Dissonance
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A pioneer in public outreach, the CAA engaged the interest of thousands of students of all ages during the decadelong excavation of the Koster site in the 1970s, when it began avocational field schools for adults and students.
From the President: Recognizing Excellence
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Provides short-term avocational/nonprofessional cooking classes for entertainment and education.
The Spark of Yahoo!
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The modern bibliophiles who know what it is to revel in the enjoyment of a goodly library, luxuriant in costly bindings and rich in bibliographical rarities, who are fully susceptible to the delights and exquisite sensibilities of that sweet madness called bibliomania, will readily comprehend the multiplied pleasures of that early and illustrious bibliophile in the seclusion of Auckland Palace; he there ardently applied his energies and wealth to the accumulation of books; and whilst engaged in this pleasing avocation, let us endeavor to catch a glimpse of him.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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From e-mail to Weblogs, the online world opens up avenues to cozy up to experts, make a mark in your avocation or profession, and be viewed, in your own right, as someone who matters.
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But, this youngster surely has an avocation that is seriously different - producing music with the vocal chords.
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The company was founded in 1976 by Jess Briley, by vocation a machinist and oil field engineer, by avocation a competitive skeet shooter.
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Mr. Pastor is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher by profession, with strong avocational interests in typography, page layout, and Web design.
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So I thought by being a lawyer that I could combine my vocation with my avocations and be part of the various worlds I love.
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It was fascinating to read the biographies of these fine avocational musicians in the program — one is an ear, nose and throat surgeon; another is a special-education teacher.
A Remarkably Inventive A Cappella Premiere
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Fortunately for the film, Ronnie's geologist brother Tom is half of the aforementioned happy couple; the other half, Gerri — they've heard all the jokes about their names — is a therapist and avocational Mother Earth.
I Love You, Brave, Bracing 'Blue Valentine'
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His cultural outlook lies in his objection to the scholastic aristocratic culture favored by Confucianists, his avocation of plain and simple culture of commonalty.
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That natural pastime became a lifelong avocation that has helped recognize and protect many notable trees in his borne county.
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Even then, farming for them was a hobby, an avocation, a link to a way of life that was slipping away.
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Since then, the British monarchy, past and present, along with my broader interest in history and genealogy, has become less of an avocation and more of a part-time vocation.
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Now the original proposition, commencing with the word "take," was meant by its propounder to achieve its climax in "a seat on one of the hall chairs;" but the liquid inferences of A1, with a dark lantern, had the desired effect, and induced a command from Mr. Adolphus Casay to the small essential essence of condensed valetanism in the person of Jim Pipkin, to produce the case-bottles for the discussion of the said A1, with the dark lantern, who gained considerably in the good opinion of Mr. James Pipkin, by requesting the favour of his company in the bibacious avocation he so much delighted in.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
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To find reasons why it is useful or beneficial converts it at once from an avocation into an industry - lowers it at once to the ignominious category of an 'excercise' undertaken for health, power, or profit.
From the BSNYC Culture Desk: "It's About the Bike" Auction
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With the exception of what I can only assume is a small army of Aspen cocaine dealers, the outlaws in these mountains are mostly in it for the kicks: avocational outlaws.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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Food and interior design have always been avocations of mine.
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He there spent all his hours, unoccupied by the duties of his abbatical office, in the transcription of books and the nobler avocations of an author.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Amana (Trust): The Islamic healer is in the in front of of certitude as great as have been thus obliged to Allah that they say the correct avocation of care.
Islamic Healing A-Z A's
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Obvious identification with the parent who died, e.g., wearing their clothes, becoming interested in their vocations and avocations was most frequent in this age group.
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Pompey is afterwards dismayed to attend to which a Roman in actuality is in a field, which troops avocation "Can from a path of Egypt's widow pluck/The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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The novel, The Shakespeare Chronicles, was begun almost immediately but, like many avocational belles lettres, took a long time to finish.
Stromata Blog:
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Louis'avocation as a ski instructor gradually became his full - time employment.
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He was a printer by trade and naturalist by avocation.
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`You climbed up there in the dark of night with a cold chisel and carved a petroglyph, to make a mockery of his avocation.
HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES
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If woman be the weaker creature, why is she employed in laborious avocations? why compelled to endure the fatigue of household drudgery; to scrub, to scower, to labour, both late and early, while the powdered lacquey only waits at the chair, or behind the carriage of his employer?
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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Now _calling_ does not mean 'avocation' or 'employment,' as I perhaps need scarcely explain, but the divine fact of our having been summoned by Him to be His.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
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Not bad for an incidental photographer who took up photography mostly as a necessity rather than an avocation!
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Drawn by a total revulsion of ideas from the chain of thinking that had led him to composition, he relinquished his annotations in resentment of this dismission, when he might have pursued them uninterruptedly without neglect of other avocations.
Camilla
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Now, you've studied particularly the writings, the love letters of people who actually write as an avocation.
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I would not like to hurt your feelings by calling your avocation a trade!
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant
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The first concerns individuals engaged in occupations or avocations in which chasing the spotlight and thriving on the adulation of others are not only appropriate and adaptive but a sine qua non for success.
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Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy.
The Convert
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I've worked with a lot of good folks over my career, and I appreciate the opportunity afforded to me in this 'avocation' to have worked alongside each of them.
High Plains Journal: Ag News
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Although birdwatchers may pursue their avocation for as long as they wish during the year, there comes a time when the activity gets stepped up.
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And the specter of student loans spurred graduates to take lucrative jobs rather than pursue avocations.
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Enjoying politics as an avocation is different from caring about the actual political issues.
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Throughout his years teaching, he created his own body of work and bamboo basketry became a serious avocation.
Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Jozan Sugita
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I'm now pursuing my long-term avocation, the stock market.
Pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
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The first part of the ethic discussed by Weber is the Lutheran notion of the ‘calling’, in which worldly avocations were considered God created and therefore ‘fulfillable in a spirit of worship’.
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In 1931, Heath retired from engineering research and patent law to devote himself to his avocation of horticulture and to research into the foundations of the natural and social sciences.
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Also, I noted that many of these individuals were lonely, isolated, unoccupied in either vocational or avocational ways, and were established in daily habits that marked them as mentally ill.
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But the trouble with gardening, as the American poet Phyllis McGinley once pointed out, is that ‘it does not remain an avocation, it becomes an obsession’.
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So Frances Hodgson Rondel must, one way and another, have got quite an earful about Professor Shandy's strange avocation.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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Even an avocation demands strenuous devotion and fortitude.
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Allowing liberty to a prisoner to pursue this kind of avocation is productive of another evil; it leads him, by gradual steps, from becoming careless of his proper duty, to the assumption of a degree of importance and independence which induces him to place himself above his master, and thus controverts the natural and necessary distinctions of society.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)
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But for many others who delve into the vast realm of history in the public domain, whether avocational historians or full-time promoters of a particular historical vision, these imperatives are not so clear.
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Manil Suri's avocational interests include painting and cooking, which he claims are the only respites from the horror of being a mathematician and a writer.
Manil Suri biography
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Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say, — Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy!
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity, within these thirty years, then must I be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear so offensively to my observation.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Factors that determined whether lifestyle was controllable were the number of practice hours per week, the number of call nights, and the time for pursuit of avocational activities.
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The Colby College graduate paused from his avocation, as well as his duties as a commercial lender at TD Banknorth's Augusta and Waterville offices, to answer some questions about a spiritual art and craft, also called plainsong, that seems largely neglected in the 21st century.
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