Sentence examples for a secret existence from inspiring English sources

Mr. Castrucci, the show's organizer, said he was motivated by a desire to document what had in many ways been a secret existence.

She refers repeatedly to a secret "Existence" – primarily her poetry – that must be seen in terms of New England individualism, the Emersonian ethos of self-reliance that in its fullest bloom eludes label.

In the rainforests of Borneo, the smallest land snail known to science ekes out a secret existence in limestone cracks.

But her illicit friendship with a sickly human boy threatens her family's secret existence and teaches her a thing or two about compatibility.

My family were keen readers of it, though in the 1950s it led a half-secret existence as a too-frank and too-political account of rural living – sex and socialism – that needed to be kept from the eyes of children and other respectable persons.

Both porters were covered in dust themselves and I imagined them living a secret, underworld existence down there.

The Empire is a secret (its existence and its power; that it rules) and secondly the secret illegal Christians pitted against it.

It was as if, like the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a secret whose existence the Soviet Union acknowledged only in 1983, rocket recycling were hidden from the world.

Here he discovers a clandestine community whose members forbid him to leave and divulge their secret existence.

This kind of secret existence was probably inevitable until recent years.

Andrew Haigh's 45 Years recently exploited the relatively unnoticed cinematic potential in the domestic lives of older people: the secret existences of a long marriage.