Sentence examples for a mere life from inspiring English sources
He took from Francis Bacon both a growlingly bravura technique, with flesh-color paint applied like gelled viscera, and a brazening of erotic appetite and angst as all-purpose fuel for art — never mind the mess they might make of a mere life.
It is still illegal to be gay in Uganda – until 2014 it was punishable by death but now carries a mere life sentence – and it is against this turbulent backdrop that Chris Urch's play (his second after Land Of My Fathers) places Dembe, a Ugandan with a virulently anti-gay pastor brother, and Sam, a Northern Irish doctor, as they try to conceal their relationship from friends and family.
This spread like wildfire and led Netscape's founders to speculate (hubristically) that the browser would eventually become the only piece of software that computer users really needed – thereby relegating the operating system to a mere life-support system for the browser.
Since the foundation's emergency appeal last summer to raise a $15 million cushion for operating expenses, it has collected only a little more than $1.5 million in major pledges and donations, a sum that amounts to mere life support.
The polis "grows for the sake of mere life," he wrote, "but it exists for the sake of a good life".
The claims of art against mere life have never been made more forcefully.
She takes us from the florid grandiosity of Western myth to the bone-wearying stress of mere life.
Nietzsche was himself an amateur pianist and composer: the kind of worshipful outsider for whom music seemed, as Safranski notes, the "authentic reality and colossal power," far beyond anything that mere life could offer.
But the dispute between Fanny and Mr Brown isn't simply between female and male love, it is between matrimony and vocation, between mere life and high art.
I would not be a mere night-life tourist but would earn admission as a writer at a real newspaper.
Egyptian funerary art was inseparably connected to the religious belief that life continued after death – even more, it expressed a belief that "death is a mere phase of life".
