Sentences with phrase «as a pastime»

After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his first shot at a paid gig at 1UP.

Founded on a kitchen table as a Depression - era»52 fundamental errors,» Monopoly has reigned for 30 years as the pastime and initially rejected because it contained most popular board game in the country

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After writing about games as a pastime for years, he got his first shot at a paid gig at 1UP.

He is an elementary school teacher and has always enjoyed writing as a pastime.

A study of 1,200 wealthy people found that they all have reading as a pastime in common.

In the opinion of Dr. Ross H. Arnett Jr., a biology professor at Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., Americans would do well to emulate the Japanese and take up insect collecting as a pastime or sport.

Ned will have to approach his players as grown men who are working at their profession, instead of as boys playing a sport as a pastime.

He's been taking pictures as a pastime for five years, but the Mass Audubon contest was the first he has ever entered.

Many people only consider jigsaw puzzles as a pastime.

He built microscopes as a pastime and gave many of them away; he never sold any.

For more than 40 years, Felton, 73, has been scouring the Cincinnati area's fossil - rich geology as a pastime, assisting professional and fellow amateur geologists.

Ethical brands exist for when our closets are void of something, not for when we feel like shopping as a pastime.

Meantime, we all know sample sales are hit or miss, so if I don't score a cashmere piece this week, apparently you can breed and raise your own herds of cashmere goats, the way some people practice beekeeping as a pastime.

I play electric guitar as a pastime and long board.

One the one hand it saddens me because it is a reflection of how the reading of books as a pastime pursuit has been a diminishing trend over the last 30 years.

Videogame development is usually seen as a male dominated field; even playing videogames is often wrongly viewed as a pastime for men only.

He could depict a game of cards as a pastime with overtones of desperation.

While Benjamin Tanner had no objection to art as a pastime, he discouraged his son from becoming a professional artist.

It's a matter of supply and demand: With the mega wealthy from Beijing to Bogota snatching up pieces by Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol as both a pastime and investment strategy, many buyers are seeking cheaper alternatives to trophy art.

«We are doing away with the tired old stereotypes of environmentalism as a pastime of the wealthy and the elite,» De León said.

This is due to decades of considering the cycling as a pastime or a sport, and not as the handy (and healthier) city transportation device it can truly be.

I have been looking at properties for years (as a pastime more than a serious search), but might also be suffering a bit from analysis paralysis.

Online dating has been created mainly for those lovers who are getting long distance communications but today most people that do it are those people that search to find their fiancés over the Internet; others do it just for fun as well as pastimes.

«I began to see how cooking, as a pastime, could alleviate the paralyzing sense of incompetence that can descend on a person during unfamiliar and trying times.»

As a pastime to pull heartstrings it seems most unlikely, but on TV in Britain its emotional appeal is such that it surpasses even Wimbledon

Writing a book isn't enough until and unless you're content with the fact that you're writing it as a pastime activity.

We all often bemoan just how costly videogames are as a pastime («$ 60 / # 50 for a game?»

During her travels, both here and later in life, Hicks observed people working with fibres — wool, yarn, thread, and so on — as both a pastime and a way of life.

Try not to use shopping as therapy or as a pastime.