Example sentences of "[adj] life was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … . |
| 2 | A measure of the extent to which évolués were drawn into French life was the fact that President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast was previously a member of five successive French cabinets during the 1950s . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the idea that nations were indestructible components of social life was an historical fantasy . |
| 4 | Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) . |
| 5 | The central feature of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century social life was the tertulia — the group of relations or friends who gathered regularly to talk in the evenings . |
| 6 | The character of Boiotian political and social life was the consequence of these agricultural riches : insularity . |
| 7 | Dali 's public life was an eccentric extension of his surrealist vision . |
| 8 | A little close to the knuckle , she thought sometimes , this tale of shopgirl turned Duchess … ( real life was the highly moral tale of a Yorkshire chainstore-owner 's daughter , likely , before 1897 was out , to become a Viscountess … ) . |
| 9 | The monastic life was the subject on which Anselm could speak with widely recognized authority and with the power of deep personal experience . |
| 10 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 11 | The only sign of human life was the beacon light at the end of the pier which skirted the entrance to Sharpness docks , a mile or so downstream . |
| 12 | A century ago , later life was a privilege reached only by a fortunate minority : average life expectancy was under fifty years . |
| 13 | We never had rows , but domestic life was a civilized , quiet hell . |
| 14 | My hydroponic life was the only kind with which I was happy , a gypsy trait from my Viking ancestry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Later that night , drinking champagne at the first night party , he gave me his usual disclaimers ; how it was all an illusion , everything was an illusion , all life was an illusion , and how he , Sir Tom , was the master of illusion , but how his dear children were real because they alone could not be spawned from the imagination . |
| 17 | Married life was a contrast with the experience of the bachelor living solitary amid echoing halls . |
| 18 | Smith said bluntly that Coleman 's long life was an unmitigated evil ( has anyone ever lived such a life ? ) . |
| 19 | Most fellows would have dined in college on most nights , whether they were married or not ; and the huge majority were still bachelors for whom the celibate life was the norm . |
| 20 | That Durham were able to make such a smooth start to their first-class life was an administrative triumph , and the fact that a fresh pile of membership applications arrived daily on the desk of the chief executive , Mike Gear , was its own tribute . |
| 21 | His private life was no more settled . |
| 22 | He thought private life was a much over-rated thing . |
| 23 | Shiona watched it , reflecting that the reason for her sensitivity was that her private life was the only area of her existence that gave her absolutely no satisfaction at all . |
| 24 | The optimists point out that the most substantial progress in Russian political life was the establishment of the Duma monarch ( 1906-1914 ) , the closest Russia got to a constitutional Government . |
| 25 | The primary task that de Gaulle set for himself in 1944 and to which he devoted the rest of his political life was the reconstitution of the French state into a state that could unite the nation , mobilize its energies , provide vigorous leadership , and stabilize France 's erratic course through the twentieth century . |
| 26 | They looked as though they knew already that life was no laughing matter . |
| 27 | The nucleus of communal life was the central market place , where the crossroads dividing the ‘ quadrants ’ met , a fact finally recognised by Bishop Story 's magnificent market cross of 1501 . |
| 28 | But Antipodean life was a far cry from the lifestyle promised by the picture show . |
| 29 | And because of that — because each new life was a fresh chance to live purely — they believed all life was sacred . ’ |
| 30 | The most obvious sign of the Diana 's new life was the sight of her Scotland Yard bodyguard who was seated at a nearby table . |