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
Late, rich middle age, especially in Manhattan, is a kind of death in life �sterile, futile, hopelessly preoccupied with the past, most depressingly so when earlier years have been marked by great drama or endeavor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mine own one, do not stand transfixed like death in life, but live here no longer; leave it, and live with me for ever, for from where you are my feet shall never stray.
From The Advocate by Heavysege, Charles
