What is "lifework"

Usage examples of "lifework".

And not only his lifework, but actually his life itself, his personality.

My correspondence with Alfred Cridge was kept up till his death a few years ago, and his son, following worthily in the footsteps of a noble father, has taken up the broken threads of the lifework of my friend, and is doing his utmost to carry it to a successful issue.

Damon said with a shrug, knowing that this would be his lifework, to study the ways of healing with matrix and monitor.

Panos, his lifework destroyed, would go back to Athens and his masonry work, and Dorian Belecamus, the failed Pythia, would return to Paris and her teaching.

So that left only one man, a man I once knew, the only man I ever knew who understood how the Well worked and whose lifework it was to learn all there was to learn about ita man who vanished and was presumed dead long ago.

If in spite of that he did not relax in them, and made the question his lifework, though it naturally became more hopeless from year to year, that only shows on the one hand how powerful an effect the appearance of the giant mole was capable of producing, and on the other how much laborious effort and fidelity to his convictions may be found in an old and obscure village schoolmaster.

He referred to this, his lifework, as the Cocoon, and to himself as the Cocoonist.

The study of plants and their uses was the lifework of most Ithorians, and the greatest of the students became priests who guided others, prohibiting the people from harvesting plants that could think or feel.

He explained that Curt Bolen, a physicist at a West Coast atomic plant, had worked for years to design a new type of proton accelerator, only to have his lifework obso-leted when Tom Swift Sr.

The first practical hair dryer -- a behemoth weighing nearly six stones and standing ten hands high -- was the lifework of Rapunzel Shoat of Bleeding Oaks, California.

The realization that one's life and one's lifework has been a failure is a bitter pill to swallow.

In college I got three credits of independent study for a critical analysis of Rose's lifework to date that must have taken me forty-eight hours to put on paper.

In college I got three credits of independent study for a critical analysis of Roses lifework to date that must have taken me forty-eight hours to put on paper.

A man might live a lie even to his daughter, be willing to see her terribly married rather than risk a lifework that depended on complete Tryannian trust, be willing to seem half a madman-'Artemisia found her voice.

A man might live a lie even to his daughter, be willing to see her terribly married rather than risk a lifework that depended on complete Tyrannian trust, be willing to seem half a madman--”.