Sentence examples for abandon existence from inspiring English sources

This view would prompt us to abandon existence internalism about practical 'reasons' (reasons claims are made relative to the concerns salient in the conversation, and not necessarily to the motivations of the agent).

Because we're not going to abandon our electrified existence anytime soon, Wright says that certain habits can counteract our estrangement from the sun.

Cancer cells undergo this major transition in reverse, and abandon a cooperative existence to selfishly outgrow normal cells.

If not a death leap, then traditionally you must be fundamentally changed and ready to face the inner conflicts of your previous existence, or abandon everything and start a new life.

So I cannot simply abandon questions about the existence of God.

He abandoned the penniless existence of a subsistence fisherman to become a big-city vegetable seller.

The second phenomenon, as manufacturing is abandoned, is the existence of big empty industrial spaces.

Subsequently he romanticized these years on the land and wondered why he had abandoned an idyllic existence for the insecurities of a life in politics.

Wilson disputed the liberal stance that the "black underclass" (a term he later abandoned) owed its existence to entrenched racial discrimination; he also disagreed with the conservative view that African American poverty was due to cultural deficiencies and welfare dependency.

Drafts of her love letters have survived: they are witty, confident, open (not coded like letters to "Master"), and within the limits of her unrelenting control over her existence, abandoned – hardly the way 19th-century ladies were supposed to behave.

I now find beauty in simple existence, abandoning all worldly desires, just like a tree or a stone".