Sentence examples for half existence from inspiring English sources

Recess at the Watari primary school: Children live a kind of half existence, never really able to enjoy the outdoors because they are limited to a maximum of three hours outside each day.

But it is only a half-existence now.

It has a potent half-existence, this creature.

But Ms Davies believes that more emphasis needs to be placed on logging sufferers of anaesthetic awareness so that they can talk about it, and avoid what she calls the "awful half-existence" that some sufferers experience.

Younger people spoke of a realisation that they could either seize the moment or resign themselves to a half-existence under the tutelage of the next generation of Gaddafis.

And so, graduate student life seems relegated to a kind of nonlife, a half-existence, shall we say, on the edge of the scientific earth.

The 240,000 Arab inhabitants of East Jerusalem live a strange half-existence, rarely in direct conflict with Israel, but resolutely clinging on to their Palestinian identity and cause.

Further, Hazlitt notes that Lady Macbeth displays human emotions, "swelling exultation and keen spirit of triumph, uncontroulable eagerness of anticipation solid, substantial flesh and blood display of passion"; while the witches from the same play are only "hags of mischief", "unreal, abortive, half-existences".

He even dismissed Manilius, on whom he expended half his existence, as "facile and frivolous".

Meanwhile, the southern kingdom of Judah was to have another century and a half of existence before a similar and even grimmer fate befell it.

"The Red Sox have never been a lucky team," a man who has known them well for more than half their existence observed the other day.