Sentence examples for grain of life from inspiring English sources

This grain of life, this tiny beast of dew.

The grain of life emerges in fine detail even as many of the mechanical connections are elided.

"Loving" is a much finer film; but in its refinement, it misses the coarser grain of life that makes the difference between an airbrushed portrait and cinematic vitality.

The image extends a presiding theme for McCall, whose covers often delight in the fine grain of life in New York, with especial attention paid to anything on wheels.

Later this year the Urban Age programme moves to Sao Paolo, shifting its focus from the bigger picture to the fine grain of life in a city in which the rich commute by helicopter, the prisons are a state within a state, and in which the mayor is able to ban outdoor street advertising overnight in a bid to beautify his city.

In a book primarily about the U.A.E.'s foreign labor force — a group of people who, even in sympathetic journalistic exposés, too often come across as one undifferentiated mass of victims — this tiny vignette works wonders, jolting the readerly brain away from abstraction and directing it toward the fine grain of life.

'The whole universe may be found in a grain of London life," wrote Peter Ackroyd.

The condition necessitates his temporary retirement from Paris to his country estate at Fontenay, where he sets his course "against the grain" of ordinary life.

The fact of our American freedom has become part of the grain of everyday life, something we take for granted rather than something we experience directly, as an epiphany.

Crucially, the new activism goes instead with the grain of modern life: freelance projects, fluid switching between electronic and physical space, informal alliances, little emphasis on hierarchy or ideology.

Weaving together diaries, newspapers, polls, and other primary sources, Kynaston maps the fine grain of daily life ("How much drunkenness was there?" "What to wear during this exceedingly hot spell?"), but the profusion of examples sometimes clouds the narrative.