The global threat of ‘Big Brother’ can actually be conquered purely by technology.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
I have passed on on a lot of roles. I purely and simply do what I like.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.
Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God’s grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
As is known, the sugar molecule as it passes through lactic acid can easily be split by purely chemical means.
Watergate was a third-rate burglary. It was purely domestic in nature.
My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children, so I would never advise anyone against university if they’re going for the right reasons.
I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth – artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that’s a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
It’s much less interesting as an actor playing someone who’s purely good or purely evil.
Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.
Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.
You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It’s not purely about money. It’s about how we choose to value human experience.
Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.
As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.
If you’re designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer’s not going to take notice.
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I’m not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
I had such a sense of purpose when I moved to San Francisco, and the purpose was purely to be in that city, and I was going to figure out the rest.
There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.
My departure from Arsenal was purely for sporting reasons.
Every now and again, it doesn’t hurt to utter some home truths as long as it is not personal, just purely professional.
I love Styx as much as I could love anything in my life. I started playing in the band when I was 14 years old. You become so involved in something when you start in it that young; you’re doing it purely out of love of what you’re doing and a belief in it.
I won’t say there’s disrespect for the Indian home cook, but I was never exposed to that. Even in a semi-urban Indian family, you will find a maid. And once you meet these people, you realise they cook purely out of passion or love for the family.
I believe in singing for my supper. I’ll never accept a grant because what I do should be able to be founded purely on free enterprise.
An all-rounder is someone who can make it to the team purely on the basis of his batting or bowling. Not both.
I don’t make personality-driven music. Personality stagnates, people become tired of it. When it is purely about the music, that is what gives it longevity.
We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.
Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes ‘no apology’ to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.
We no longer sing and dance. We don’t know how to. Instead, we watch other people sing and dance on the television screen. Christmas, which was once a festival of active enjoyment, has turned into a binge of purely passive pleasures.
As a community organizer who holds a degree in history, I understand the fascination with history. However, there is a tendency for many of us to get engrossed in the recounting of our history, which often amounts to purely intellectual activity without material action.
At first, learning to bake was purely selfish, but I quickly learned I can’t eat every batch of cookies myself, so I would bake and eat what I wanted and give the rest away. I fell in love with feeding others as much as I loved eating sweets myself.
Some of football’s gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It’s not what players do, it’s how they look doing it.
As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we’re going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.
I don’t think anyone is purely evil or purely brilliant, certainly for Prince Charles.
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
I had always known that I couldn’t play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don’t have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.
Passion is something that’s hard to discover purely through introspection. You have to have experiences – you have to learn real-time and through experiences what makes you tick.
The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn’t it?
When you act, you really have to give all of yourself, and if you’re doing that purely for money, it’s not healthy.
Boring heroines are, in my opinion, the most common romance mistake. We loathe hanging out with women who define themselves purely through their relationships… why would we want to read about them?
The one good thing about our school was the Cadets; I chose to be in the Navy, purely for the sailor’s outfit. A pity we had to give them back.
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Vlogging started as a hobby – something I was partaking in purely for fun – and has now become a career, and that feels almost like an impossible reality.
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
