I could spend my life arranging things.
It's all part of trying to bring some kind of meaning to my life, arranging it so I'm a giver rather than a taker.
They never returned, but she has spent much of her adult life arranging long and short stints on the island they were pushed by poverty to forsake.
In the shop on Crosby Street, each display case contains a still life, arranged to within a 16th of an inch, that forces the engagement of the eye and mind.
In the future, according to Dave Eggers, one mega social-network corporation, the namesake of his new novel, has become the technological architect of daily life — arranging conversations, restocking pantries, making payments, and ranking human beings.
From the mid-1990s onumerousous million-dollar insurance policies were purchased on Mrs. Cheney's life, arranged for by Ms. Wells but paid for by Mrs. Cheney with premiums of $45,000 and up that strained even a trust-fund budget.
Kurt Vonnegut listened to the water at the end of his life, arranged to be seen and photographed staring into the surf.
There was a solid case to be made for a screenwriting career entirely organized around avoiding the Weinsteins as well as for a life arranged around the absence of hope and ambition.
Set in Chicago in 2003, "The Making of Zombie Wars" tells the story of Levin, an adult ESL teacher and amateur screenwriter who feels "there was a solid case to be made for … a life arranged around the absence of hope and ambition".
She was so giving: she introduced me to Edith Head in Rome so Edith would sponsor me in the Costume Designers Union; and to Coco Chanel in Paris in the last year of Coco's life, arranging for us to spend a private evening with Chanel so that she could give me some advice on fashion and designing.
