Example sentences of "life was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wilful destruction of young lives was a different kettle of fish altogether . |
| 2 | Our response to their lives was a greater part disbelief than compassion . |
| 3 | This was the first London West End musical for both Crawford and director Patrick Garland , whose production of Brief Lives was a TV and theatre success , starring Roy Dotrice . |
| 4 | Girls of twelve to fifteen I spoke to in Harlesden said that the worst aspect of their lives was the bullying and racism they faced in school . |
| 5 | Around Newbury from one to three lives was the rule , while at Faringdon tenure was hereditary , reflecting perhaps the mainly pastoral economy of the district . |
| 6 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 7 | ‘ My life was a dream . ’ |
| 8 | Married life was a contrast with the experience of the bachelor living solitary amid echoing halls . |
| 9 | According to our blonde stewardess , herself an object of fantasy , all life was a mindless rush , gabbled nonsense , sweaty commuting between the only moments that made sense , the embrace of a man and a woman . |
| 10 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 11 | If life was a battle and Charlie Hatton a soldier of fortune he , Wexford , stood in the position of United Nations patrol whose job it was to prevent incursions on the territory of the defenceless . |
| 12 | A friend of mine met up with a keen Christian woman whose life was a mess . |
| 13 | Then indeed man was , as Hardy depicted him , the mere plaything of fate ; life was a black comedy ; perhaps Oscar Wilde was right to regard the aspirations of Little Nell as only good for a laugh . |
| 14 | Underneath I felt that my life was a weird cocktail of huge , secret binges and hidden stashes of food , and late-night trips to the off-licence to buy vast amounts of chocolate and crisps . |
| 15 | Life was a cinema screen , in an infinite darkness . |
| 16 | A century ago , later life was a privilege reached only by a fortunate minority : average life expectancy was under fifty years . |
| 17 | Achievers fear failure , and yet Jesus ' life was a failure by most human standards . |
| 18 | The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel . |
| 19 | We can learn very much from Thoreau most of whose adult life was a kind of retirement . |
| 20 | I do n't suppose life was a great deal better for their cabbies , who always looked poor and pinched . |
| 21 | Her life was a ceaseless round of hard work , of struggling to make ends meet , of keeping up appearances and yet her lion-like spirit showed through . |
| 22 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 23 | Lawrence that his whole life was a testimony to the fascination of the secret power of the will . |
| 24 | Graham , 28 , was quiet , self-effacing and likeable — but his life was a disaster zone . |
| 25 | His life was a million miles away from ours , his past revered , his future assured , the son of a doctor and the father of one , and when it came to ‘ caring ’ he 'd only touched the surface . |
| 26 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 27 | Ceauşescu himself insisted that a pregnant woman was ‘ everybody 's concern ’ because family life was a ‘ socialized private problem ’ . |
| 28 | Life was a continuous thread ; snap it , and mindless instinct remained , with no direction or purpose . |
| 29 | I could have written back to explain that my life was a daily humiliation and an unrelieved imprisonment , but I felt sure that they would neither care nor understand and , again , pride deterred me . |
| 30 | When his questioner suggested that the contemplative life was a specious kind of idleness , Nicholas replied that they had ‘ found divers perplexities , distractions and almost utter ruin in other callings , but that God hath given them an incredible improvement of their livelihood since their sequestration ’ . |