Sentence examples for dead marriage from inspiring English sources
A beautiful psychotic detaches an old friend from her comfortable dead marriage.
The detective in the case (Alec McCowen) puts up with his wife's pretentious cooking every night, a way for them both to divert attention from a dead marriage.
The actors' portrait of a nearly dead marriage that has persisted more out of habit than out of anything else is compellingly persuasive, all the more so because the movie gives them no easy solution.
Some of the biggest names in the batch — including the Coen brothers, Gus Van Sant, and Wes Craven — just tread water, but Gérard Depardieu and Frédéric Auburtin offer a deeply moving scene, scripted by Gena Rowlands (channelling John Cassavetes), featuring Rowlands and Ben Gazzara as an elderly couple postmorteming their dead marriage.
When Douglas Sirk sought her out for "All I Desire" (1953), it was because he needed a woman who could leave town (and her three children), come back a decade later, coax her dead marriage into life, tend an old flame, and still find time to make eyes at her daughter's boyfriend.
Why on earth would Laila want to keep from a dead marriage the sort of business letter that a neurologist might have to write to a legal firm — on some question of a car accident maybe, or the nonpayment of some patient's consultation fee or surgery charges.
About how to save their dead marriages.
Many are locked into dead marriages – or convert to another religion so they can divorce.
All too often stifled by dead marriages, they bolt for freedom -- only to discover that freedom can be equally imprisoning.
Around the fringes of her heroines' wrecked relationships circle the "coffin chasers", even more desperate female predators who pick the bones of dead marriages and make off with the spare men.
The scandalous situation of kidnapping and torturing recalcitrant husbands who withhold a Jewish divorce, a "get," from their wives is a result of the Orthodox rabbinate's failure to use the compassionate and creative solutions long available under Jewish law to free women from dead marriages ("U.S. Accuses 2 Rabbis of Kidnapping Husbands for a Fee," news article, Oct. 11).
