Sentence examples for existed half from inspiring English sources

Marceau saw Bip, who was adapted from the character of Pip in Charles Dickens Great Expectationss, as a kind of modern Everyman, a figure who existed half in a dream world, half in reality; he was a free spirit, "who can sometimes win but is most often beaten down".

In fact if such a thing really existed, half of the world's mother-in-laws would probably use it to rid themselves of potentially independent daughter-in-laws.

Now the question remains: given the totally different technological and cultural landscape that exists half a century after the golden age, can history repeat itself?

Nor do doctors have the training and expertise to perform the myriad tests and procedures that did not even exist half a century ago and that have helped to extend quality years of life for so many.

Sidney Lumet is back on top form with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - maybe he could revisit the template of 12 Angry Men for the very different America that exists half a century on?

"Abe Lincoln said that a nation cannot exist half free and half slave.

It's a kind of Lawnmower Man/Woman who exists half in the virtual, half in the real world, snacking on nanobots when they feel a bit peckish.

On June 6 , 1961 at a news conference in New York, King explicitly invoked the memory of the Civil War: "Just as Abraham Lincoln had the vision to see almost 100 years ago that this nation could not exist half-free, the present administration must have the insight to see that today the nation cannot exist half-segregated and half-free".

In some ways, his works, especially his political-allegorical paintings, have become dated souvenirs of a Japan that now seems as remote as the ancient Jomon age, even though it existed only half a century ago.

Viktor and Emmy left with two suitcases for the limbo of a country estate in a Slovakia that no longer existed, and half their little luggage was confiscated on the way.

"Deferred action has existed for half a century, reflected in longstanding regulations as an act of administrative convenience and recognized by the Supreme Court as an appropriate exercise of the Executive's removal discretion," wrote judge Higginson in his dissent.