Sentence examples for impossibility of life from inspiring English sources

We are eager to hear how these composers will embody the alienation, emptiness, confusion, absurdity and dark humor that Beckett writes to relieve us, if only for a moment or two, from the impossibility of life.

One says, "It is one of the impossibilities of life, for me to take my clothes off now and jump in".

Whelan is clearly writing about the impossibility of living one's life in the manner of myths and legends.

It was the practical response of mainly irreligious men to the impossibility of Jewish life in Europe.

Their poems and essays frequently centre on the impossibility of palace life for the scholar (with criticisms of the court sometimes necessarily veiled in allegory) and the pleasures and hardships of country life.

A third disc finds Drake pondering the impossibility of real-life romantic connection in the age of the nip-slip Twitpic.

And yet the art somehow needs to resolve, even if the human questions are unresolvable, and I actually like that gulf and maybe even look for it — the tense standoff between the art's satisfying completion and the impossibility of tidying up life itself.

Unless you're a Boomer, you can't possibly understand the impossibility of replacing a life at work with recreational pursuits; there simply aren't enough golf courses or gardens to keep this massive generation feeling as vital and valuable as a material endeavor can.

Michaux had a bleak view of the human condition; his poems emphasize the impossibility of making sense of life as it impinges on the individual.

Mr. Phillips's essays are ruminations on a variety of themes -- the contingency of life, the impossibility of self-knowledge, the incompleteness of language, the power and limits of psychoanalysis; he cites "authorities" like Henry James and Ludwig Wittgenstein as often as he does Freud.

In Freydberg's view, Penn wanted Chrisemer to have not simply the same commitment to perfectionism that he had but the same style of life — an impossibility for Chrisemer, who made no effort to hide his distaste for punk-rock music and Howard Johnson's cuisine.