Example sentences of "his life was [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Graham , 28 , was quiet , self-effacing and likeable — but his life was a disaster zone . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | His life was a brief one and his war service was heroic . |
5 | The thought that I had crushed something out of his life was a disquieting one . |
6 | Hyde in danger of his life was a new experience for me . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | His life was a mess and he knew it . |
9 | In fact , his life was a life of crime . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The mechanism that thrust him away from advertising and into politics and enabled him to change his life was the London Business School . |
12 | By this he means that the principle he had known as dominant in his life was the principle of sin and the death to which it inevitably led . |
13 | The great cause of his life was the Scottish communion office , the eucharistic liturgy deriving from the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer . |