Sentence examples for life asserting from inspiring English sources

There is a sense throughout of ordinary lives lived in the shadow of great horror, of life asserting itself in the face of the abyss.

The thunderous vibrations that Kolya senses are the tremors of life asserting itself against those who would try to control it.

Later writers produced fictitious accounts of his life, asserting that he was born in 841, the son of Æthelweard, an obscure East Anglian king, whom it was said Edmund succeeded when he was fourteen (or alternatively that he was the youngest son of a Germanic king named 'Alcmund').

In "best friend" language, humour is a culturally approved manifestation of ambivalence, in which the love of life asserts itself over the admission of destructive desires.

Several accounts of her life assert that she took her first dance lessons on the advice of a doctor, who said she had weak feet.

But in between the giant behemoths that dot the landscape, which also includes the big food warehouses and processing plants ranged along the blandly named Food Center Drive ("Nebraskaland," one is amusingly called), teeming life asserts its own unruly prerogatives.

He fades whenever I'm breaking some new ground in my life," asserted Patrick, with a sense of satisfaction having deepened his understanding of his challenge.

Although the film based on the entertainer's life asserts that he was banned from his home state after refusing to perform for a white-only audience, that claim is, in fact, untrue.

Shall we ruin a girl's life by asserting some mistaken religious high ground against the laws of nature?

As local school districts inch toward reform, sometimes at a snail's pace, legions of parents, from all walks of life, are asserting themselves more and demanding more from their schools and for their child's education.

It might just be that your gift was a 50-year pop, and I was so lucky to get in on this game halfway through its life"), and asserted that we are living through the historical moment "when power ebbed from the West to the East after 500 years of constant growth".