Sentence examples for attenuated life from inspiring English sources

At first glance, the attenuated life of a dour, sequestered, misanthropic academic who wrote poems of unrequited love to his unresponsive heterosexual Oxford friend and flatmate Moses Jackson seems unpromising theatrical stuff.

"The comics that I respect the most have all committed suicide, or got as close to it as they could," he says, thinking of George Carlin's battle with cocaine and Richard Pryor's epic but attenuated life.

I had a strange, attenuated life – living in the Deanery in Canterbury, which is a vast medieval and Elizabethan house, with 15 bedrooms and a library and 50 portraits of deans on the wall; and there was a curfew bell at 9 o'clock, when the cathedral gates were locked, and you had to be let out by a porter.

John's life in London is dreary and attenuated: living frugally in a small room, subsisting on bread and cheese and apples; taking house-sitting jobs when he can.

"Racial prejudice had attenuated his life, limited his life.

In "Truth," the chronological narration seems instead to attenuate the life, to make it little more than a recitation of one thing after another.

These fifteen RNAi clones were then assayed for their ability to attenuate the life extension of isp-1, tpk-1 and clk-1 Mit mutants.

However, mitochondrial adaptations to both acute and chronic exercise are attenuated in late life.

Unlike vaccines based on recombinant proteins, epitope-based vaccines can be designed to be compatible with a subsequent boost with the standard life attenuated vaccine.

Including variables of adult socioeconomic status attenuated the early life associations with disease biomarkers.

Since a life attenuated vaccine to prevent varicella has become available, many countries consider including it in their National Immunization Program.