Sentence examples for defeated life from inspiring English sources
During the second Boer war, as Millard observes, the British promised that, as soon as the Boers were defeated, life for non-whites would change dramatically.
"Because only when you fuck is everything that you dislike in life and everything by which you are defeated in life purely if momentarily revenged.
The end of the book finds Rita defeated by life: "For the first time I sat down defenseless to await life's next assault".
He's a working-class loser who's defeated by life but refuses to lay down and die.
Our last vision of this Blanche is, like our first, of a ghost, if by ghost we mean someone defeated by life.
Night-shift bubble-gum factory employees did not arrive at such a career impasse by happenstance; the men on the dawn patrol were all in some way defeated by life.
"A Catered Affair" was a perversely wan new musical, to be sure, but Faith Prince fully committed to its sepia-toned sadness, erasing any traces of her trademark bouncy clowning to crawl into the crabbed soul of a woman too defeated by life to crack a smile.
"She has felt so defeated by life and by the hand she was dealt, yet she has this moment of grace," Brown says.
But in a string of films in recent years, Broderick has shrunk himself to a cowering kernel of humanity: playing characters defeated by life before they get out of bed in the morning.
I just went with things that I felt were logical for a possible future and supported the point of my story, which was the premise that irrational love defeats life's programming, and that the most robotic beings I've met are us".
