Now is the time to dig in and stand united against any attempt to dismantle life-saving gun laws.
Stewart did not know that this magic was about to be interrupted, that a few minutes of savagery would gradually dismantle his life.
In the Maple series in particular -- sad, funny, telling stories that overlap novelistically to provide a two-decade-long portrait of a marriage -- he not only shows how this man and woman create and then dismantle a life together, but also illuminates the ways in which time and memory and shifting cultural mores can alter the margins of a relationship.
Essentially what the NFL tried to do to Omalu was to dismantle his life in ways the lives of former NFL players were dismantled by brain diseases.
The call came as Lucia Perillo was dismantling her life -- giving up her job teaching writing at Southern Illinois University and joining her husband in Olympia, Wash., because she has multiple sclerosis and cannot commute cross-country anymore.
In a series of overlapping stories about Joan and Richard Maple (collected in "Too Far to Go"), Mr. Updike created an indelible two-decade-long portrait of a marriage, chronicling how one couple created and then dismantled a life together, while tracing the imprint that time and age left on their relationship.
For several months I've been busy dismantling one life to get ready for another.
But it doesn't directly help the loss of a home, a loved one, the complete dismantling of life as they knew it.
The article offered only palliative care: how-to advice about dismantling your life so you can cope with diminished retirement prospects, diminished healthcare, and diminished real estate holdings.
They are, however, a huge voting contingent; dismantling their life-support systems would be politically costly.
It's hard to dismantle a shared life.
