Sentence examples for hard existence from inspiring English sources

They lived a sad, hard existence there.

They earned cash in what was often a hard existence.

Most of the traffic shunters, old and young, seemed to resent their hard existence.

As detailed in a crisp and penetrating recent biography, "Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art," by Nancy Princenthal, the artist's hard existence began, in 1912, in a small town on the plains of Saskatchewan, as the third of four children of Scottish Presbyterian parents.

It's just a hard existence and some people aren't built for it.

Separated from her daughters for five years, Castillo said she ekes out a hard existence in her adopted country.

Born to a poor peasant family just after the October revolution in November 1919, Mikhail Yefimiyevich Kalashnikov found his family exiled from the hills of the southern Altai region to Siberia, where they lived a hard farming existence.

Then a series of events shatter her hard-fought existence.

Wuorinen says that he wanted to do something that the film didn't: instead of the beautifying effects of the cinematography on the mountainous landscape of the North American West, the opera returns to the sense of threat, of danger, of hard-fought existence that the Wyoming mountains are really about, something that's there in the story but less apparent in Ang Lee's film.

Which suggests that hating meetings might be akin to hating traffic, families or parties — just another way to express our deep ambivalence about that hard fact of existence: other people.

In "Mein Kampf," from which he would make millions, he emphasized the hard struggle for existence of the "upstart" who had risen "by his own efforts from his previous position in life to a higher one," that "kills all pity" and destroys "feeling for the misery of those who have remained behind".