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Example sentences for: vocation

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In a 1988 apostolic letter on the "dignity and vocation of women," the pope warned that "in the name of liberation from male domination, women must not appropriate to themselves male characteristics contrary to their own feminine 'originality.
A "binge reader," he makes it his hidden vocation to amass clues to the secret of anorexia.
I am leery of this desire to extend the category of "intellectual" in all sorts of directions away from those with a vocation to scholarship or writing.
In discussing a time when black men and women with an intellectual vocation were deprived of the chance to make a living through the pen, there is a case for looking in American black life for the places to which those thwarted thinkers diverted their energies.
Biography is no vocation for old men; it requires physical stamina.