Example sentences of "life was [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ My life was a dream . ’
3 Married life was a contrast with the experience of the bachelor living solitary amid echoing halls .
4 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 .
5 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 … .
6 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 .
7 A friend of mine met up with a keen Christian woman whose life was a mess .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Life was a cinema screen , in an infinite darkness .
11 A century ago , later life was a privilege reached only by a fortunate minority : average life expectancy was under fifty years .
12 Achievers fear failure , and yet Jesus ' life was a failure by most human standards .
13 The only sign of life was a man , wearing what looked like a woollen dressing gown with a hood , riding past on a camel .
14 We can learn very much from Thoreau most of whose adult life was a kind of retirement .
15 I do n't suppose life was a great deal better for their cabbies , who always looked poor and pinched .
16 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 .
17 Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus .
18 Lawrence that his whole life was a testimony to the fascination of the secret power of the will .
19 Graham , 28 , was quiet , self-effacing and likeable — but his life was a disaster zone .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Ceauşescu himself insisted that a pregnant woman was ‘ everybody 's concern ’ because family life was a ‘ socialized private problem ’ .
23 Life was a continuous thread ; snap it , and mindless instinct remained , with no direction or purpose .
24 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 .
25 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 ’ .
26 My life was a nightmare . ’
27 We never had rows , but domestic life was a civilized , quiet hell .
28 Since life was a vale of tears , I imagine his death was also an event to which they both looked forward , impatiently .
29 CHARLES III , the reformers ' king , whose life was a mechanical ritual of hunting and hard work , died in the last month of the last year when reform was still respectable — 1788 .
30 As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway .
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