Sentence examples for brief lives from inspiring English sources

Week 2 - Wednesday 7 October Exploring the genre: brief lives.

Birds and flowers have brief lives, he says.

Novels, like butterflies, have momentous, too brief lives.

His Brief Lives were never published in his lifetime.

THE BRONTË SISTERS The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne.

He turned out prefaces and brief lives and journal articles, almost all anonymously.

Homer's brief lives: "Euphorbus died / Leaving his silver hairclip on the battlefield".

Brief lives rely on abbreviation, and Cooke makes an art of it.

This is a splendidly various collection of "brief lives" written with both gusto and sensitivity.

The definitive presentation of Aubrey's biographical manuscripts, however, is Brief Lives (2 vol., 1898; edited by Andrew Clark).

He exposed them to an international standard for the first time in their brief lives on the water.