death in life
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Half a century later, E4’s Drifters continues that venerable riff on urban Yorkshire as death in life.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2014
He lives a kind of death in life.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2012
While the doctor slips in and gives Laura a hypo, the chorus chants the moral: "The only death in life is the death of love."
From Time Magazine Archive
Conner considers museums a form of death in life, a technique for embalming art so that people can avoid seeing its relevance to their lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Death, when he draws nigh for the first time, at least leaves us our illusions; but this voluntary death in life, from which there is no resurrection, filled Di's soul with loathing compassion.
From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
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