Sentence examples for cheat mortality from inspiring English sources
Those returning from the so-called "hippy trail" talked of exciting, esoteric and erotic religions from India that held the keys to cheat mortality and find a perfect sex life on the way.
It's how we communicate, it's how we make sense of the world, it's how we learn, how we teach and it's even (and here's the kicker) how we cheat mortality: storytelling is how we project what we know and feel forward in time, way beyond our life-span.
Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
Our pastime is a big, mercenary business, and we've learned that players will deform themselves with steroids, cheating mortality and their opponents in an effort to stay forever young and powerful.
Like Freud, he cleaved to stoicism in considering death, but unlike him had sought comfort in religious faith and sexual adventure, the latter his way – or at least his characters' way – of cheating mortality: "If you have a secret, submerged, second life, you have somehow transcended or outwitted the confines of a single life".
Perhaps my greatest fear about the rise of the fake breast in Western culture is that, like Botox and facial surgery, it attempts to cheat ageing and mortality itself.
Should we have to die in the same manner?" DeLillo's latest tackles fate and mortality head-on as a billionaire with a terminally ill wife tries to cheat death through science.
(The sense of mortality in "The Twilight Zone" was the prospect of mass annihilation — We're all gonna die!) It tries to cheat the big sleep by prying open so many doors into the beyond.
Are you a cheat, a cheat, or a cheat?
