Example sentences of "life was [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Life was a slow , blissful progress towards an unnamed but predecided climax which we both realized was there , only waiting for us to reach it . |
| 32 | The only sign of life was a goat chewing on a rag at the corner of a house . |
| 33 | His life was a brief one and his war service was heroic . |
| 34 | Life was a charmed quiet . |
| 35 | But I could appreciate a countervailing vision of tolerant scepticism in which the surface texture of life was a source of amiability and pleasure . |
| 36 | And because of that — because each new life was a fresh chance to live purely — they believed all life was sacred . ’ |
| 37 | He had looked at his wife 's unguarded face and forgotten for a moment that life was a deadly game in which you had to keep your cards close to your chest and your back to the wall , your eyes open and your nose clean in order not to end up in the gutter with your hat in your hand . |
| 38 | After the separation from her husband , Blanche 's love life was a Russian roulette of the emotions : taking men to her heart , and sometimes to her bed , with the fateful enthusiasm of a suicide pulling the trigger of a gun . |
| 39 | The thought that I had crushed something out of his life was a disquieting one . |
| 40 | Cos Jung had this idea that the whole the whole of life was a journey towards the discovery of what he called the real self . |
| 41 | He felt that the Frenchman 's life was a mirror of his own . |
| 42 | Hyde in danger of his life was a new experience for me . |
| 43 | It was exciting again , and life was a game of hide and go seek . |
| 44 | For most of those around him , life was a simple matter ordered by the pharaoh and the gods , by the annual rise and fall of the River and the three seasons , by the narrow strip of green in the desert along which they existed . |
| 45 | But in these cases the life was a product of the poetry , and not vice versa . |
| 46 | He thought private life was a much over-rated thing . |
| 47 | This sort of inquisition had n't happened to him since his schooldays , since he had been the playground bully whose only fear in life was a particularly sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued headmaster . |
| 48 | Her whole adult life was a triumph of determination over a body that could have condemned her to permanent invalidism . |
| 49 | Her life was a whirl of parties , outings to the theatre , dinner-dates , picnics and quiet evening walks . |
| 50 | For the first years with Sarah my life was a happy one . |
| 51 | Life was a grid of stucco through which the cliches were sought . |
| 52 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 53 | It seemed to Putt that life was a constant battle against debt . |
| 54 | His life was a mess and he knew it . |
| 55 | Life was a game like tennis , set up by men for men to win with powerful serves she would never be able to return . |
| 56 | His whole life was a search for quietness in which the voice of God could be heard ( see 15.92 ) . |
| 57 | But Antipodean life was a far cry from the lifestyle promised by the picture show . |
| 58 | In fact , his life was a life of crime . |
| 59 | And I think that in this sense his life was a failure , that he was never able to live up to his scientific naturalism , that he was never able to integrate his romantic nature with his view of the nature of the universe . |
| 60 | Life was no rosegarden , flower-walk for Meg . |