Sentences with phrase «sort of a pilgrimage»

It stands as a sort of pilgrimage, a getting - it - done.

Walking on Wall Street is sort of a pilgrimage for us financial fans.

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Even if we picture the goal of the pilgrimage as a sort of peasant paradise, it will be far more practical than setting out on a pilgrimage which has no goal....

«The idea of sojourn and pilgrimage and embarking on a travel adventure or a quest of sorts has always been what's kind of motivated my love for travel,» he explains.

It's a pilgrimage of sorts, to present himself to a reigning folk impresario played by F. Murray Abraham.

I'll be in San Francisco over Memorial Day weekend, and my trip itinerary includes its own sort of literary pilgrimage — to the famous City Lights Bookstore, founded by Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953.

It's hard not to shake the feeling of participating in some sort of solemn pilgrimage as you work your way through the game's story, almost as if you're atoning for someone else's sins.

I recently made a pilgrimage of sorts to Los Angeles to celebrate one of the city's most important black female artists, Senga Nengudi.

In 1997, after having spent two weeks at the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab, Dean embarked on a pilgrimage of sorts to Rozel Point on the shores of the Great Salt Lake, the site of Robert Smithson's infamous earth work Spiral Jetty.

In 1926, Johnson traveled to Paris, making a pilgrimage of sorts to the studio of Henry Ossawa Tanner.

She had a lot of acclaim starting in the»60s — she has that large commission at Lincoln Center that I always visit, like a pilgrimage — and I've seen her work at the Whitney, but she sort of dropped out of sight in the»70s.

A deep, and deepening, sense of the artist's singular powers... a sort of secular pilgrimage, on which you may feel your perceptual ability to register minute differences in tone and texture steadily refined, and your heart ambushed by rushes of emotion.