Sentence examples for floating existence from inspiring English sources

The floating existence he has lived ever since is the subject of a 90-minute video meditation on the way a moral decision can shape a life, and on how that life continues to bear witness to history.

After the accident, a "surrealistic world" appeared along with bad memories of being in a floating existence where plans had to be changed.

When the injury occurred the "surrealistic world" appeared with memories of being in a floating existence, changes of plans and being in an unreal world.

It was here that the term ukiyo, or floating world, was coined; formerly a Buddhist metaphor for the transience of mortal existence, it came to describe the pursuit of transient pleasures.

Even in 1966 the sidewalks of Times Square still seemed rife with the "floating existences" Baudelaire celebrated as the antidote to smug bourgeois urbanism.

Uncle Rudolf is a desperately sad tale; a haunting narrative by a haunted man whose inability to fuse the fragments of his childhood condemns him to an unanchored existence, floating between the old world - and words - and the new.

We can imagine the existence of an "early floating living world" constituted of primordial cells that might have looked like "soap bubbles" embedding one or more informational molecules and performing a limited number of metabolic reactions.

The term plankton is derived from the Greek planktos, meaning wandering or drifting, an apt description of the way most plankton spend their existence, floating with the ocean's currents.

I've never made a decision in my police career, and I jokingly tell people that I lead a Forrest Gump type existence, floating along and ending up where I go.

I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope, that first, there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

However, Thomas is clear in denying that only the intellect survives the death of the human; one cannot have a free floating incorruptible power in existence without the subject of the power in existence.