Example sentences for: midlife

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

  • Negotiating a tricky midlife career change, caught between rock and a hard place, Paul Simon figures that sometimes, as with Graceland , the gamble pays off.

  • A NYT editorial says the defeat in California of several super-rich candidates "may cause multimillionaires to rethink their plans for midlife career changes."

  • In an interview, the 68-year-old Murdoch details his overdue midlife crisis: divorce, a move to a downtown Manhattan loft, a nubile new wife, and an avowed attempt to dress like his twentysomething sons.

  • Raves for this dystopian dark-side-of-the-American-dream tale starring Kevin Spacey as a "suburban Travis Bickle--off his rocker, but happy about it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), who experiences a massive midlife crisis and falls in lust with his teen-age daughter's friend.

  • Two of the three stories in this volume concern the midlife crises of womanizers and all three are deemed mediocre knockoffs of Ford's earlier work, littered with characters "not complex enough to hold one's interest" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). Some, however, appreciate Ford's continued explorations of "contemporary manhood and its discontents" (Dan Cryer, Newsday ) and his "sinewy" prose, reminiscent of Twain and Hemingway (Michael Gorra, the New York Times Book Review ). "Nobody now writing looks ...


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