Here, the men's entwined arms indicated a joint existence, marked by a tender combativeness.
Elizabeth Mouncey and her parents eked out a miserable existence marked by destitution, violence and squalor; her father, an East End docker, drank heavily and beat his wife.
After service in the First World War, the poet and composer Ivor Gurney led a strange, wandering existence marked by periods of intense creative work and mental breakdown.
But its existence marks a departure from the traditional ways of determining credit-worthiness by looking at a person's credit history and how much debt they owe.
I was awed by JG Ballard's autobiography, Miracles of Life, which vividly portrays an existence marked for ever by his childhood in Shanghai and his wartime imprisonment in Lunghua camp in China.
The McCain crowd would have you believe that Palin is the perfect representation of the post-feminist woman, a candidate whose very existence marks the end of feminism — of the old "liberal feminist agenda," as McCain himself has put it — and the start of a more global kind of triumph for the great mass of women.
All our lives, our bodies manifest evidence of an existence marked by gains and losses.
As the traumatized remnants of the Iceland expedition come into contact with the settlers, a new type of society comes into existence, marked by a reconciled relationship to nature and egalitarian social relations.
The former's insatiable appetite is neatly symbolised by his reckless consumption of muffins, while the latter's cloistered existence is marked by her shocked awareness that she is sitting on a financial fortune.
The electrochemistry of this heme protein is characterized by the existence of marked adsorption phenomena.
