death in life
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Again I dropped adown that darkling sea of death in life, and rose up again to find myself in a boat, floating, floating, on the wavelike ripples of a larger lake.
From The Day of His Youth by Brown, Alice
