Example sentences for: life--the

How can you use “life--the” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Still life--the portrayal of familiar inanimate objects--is, as the name suggests, a paradoxical genre.

  • The full apparatus of American intellectual life--the major universities, the literary organs, the forums for speaking--were open to him in ways they were not even to James Baldwin, the most noted crossover black literary star of the 1950s.

  • ) Notwithstanding everyone's reluctance, Lehrman got several minutes of film that brought dozens of bit players and their world to life--the seductive Sandor Ferenczi at a caf, (he once conducted affairs with a patient and her mother at the same time), the warm and animated Princess Marie Bonaparte graciously introducing everybody to everybody else at tea parties (she later rescued Freud from the Nazis), a dashing and alarmingly radiant Wilhelm Reich (he lated invented orgone therapy).

  • It was the one scene in his life--the right mix of ceremonial and stasis--that Burne-Jones himself might have found visually appealing.

  • Since Greene would juggle the same motifs for the rest of his life--the triangles, the bonds between cuckolds and lovers, the self-sacrificing renunciations, the use of birthmarks to indicate spiritual blight, the insistent pull of Catholicism--Jordan's interpolation seems not an impertinence but the highest form of respect.


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