Sentence examples for figures of life from inspiring English sources

Between 1970 and 2012, Gass published seven collections of them, including "Fiction and the Figures of Life," "Habitations of the Word," and "Finding a Form".

He was sixty three -- and once again 'number shock' set in -- that symptomatic quantum of disbelief when the figures of life just don't add up.

Eça de Queirós, who wrote his portraits of strata of Portuguese society chiefly while living in England and France, treated figures of national life with realist irony and as part of a sweeping panorama.

As commencement season ploughs on, here are some favorites from respected figures of public life.

The schools must not think so, because children seem to learn nothing of the great figures of American life.

Who better, then, than Mr. Russell Beale to portray one of the more faceless figures of urban life, a taxi driver?

A more revealing place to look, certainly more so than polls or media firestorms, is at the fact and figures of minority life in America.

His presence can be felt in Chekhov's stories in the tyrannical father figures of "My Life" and "Three Years" as well as Jacob, the benighted zealot in "The Murder".

Diane is delighted, Artie dubious, but they pack up and descend with inappropriate gifts (Artie gives out bobblehead figures of himself), life lessons and a hands-on parenting philosophy that encompasses criminal negligence and Dr. Spock-style common sense.

The grandparents arrive with "inappropriate gifts (Artie gives out bobblehead figures of himself), life lessons and a hands-on parenting philosophy that encompasses criminal negligence and Dr. Spock-style common sense," Manohla Dargis wrote in The New York Times.

Although a variety of criteria, parameters, and indicators attempt to capture key figures of city life [1], they are yet far from depicting the more subjective aspects that constitute the experiential character of built environments.