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death in life

NOUN
living death
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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

The old death in life was to them a sombre reality, keenly and painfully remembered.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay




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