Sentence examples for life click from inspiring English sources

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There has been a total commodification of human life: click; choose race and eye colour; pay, then have your child delivered.

After "Beer n' Burgers" (rockabilly) or "Taco Tuesday" (Celia Cruz), you "Calm Down" (Wilco, the National) and then, depending on your love life, click on "Sexy Beats" or "Better Off Without You" (or maybe "Bedtime Stories," for the kids), followed by "Sleep" (heavy on Brian Eno, king of the z's).

But even (or perhaps, particularly) when it is removed from its carefully motivated context, the image maintains its force and piquancy as a metaphor of urban anxiety: modern man uncertainly suspended over the chasm of an uncaring, impersonal metropolis, struggling to hold on to something, anything, as his feet churn the void and the minutes of his life click away.

(To save a life, click here!).

For last week's episode of Band for Life, click here.

For Part 1 of Band for Life, click here.

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Describing social media as an "incredible tool" she added: "You don't want to spend your entire life clicking and liking.

He just knew, all of a sudden, that he had to be with her, as his decisions about his life clicked up several notches of urgency.

"It's not called the Wheel," he tells the Kodak execs, as his life clicks past in the dark, smoke-filled office.

Greta closed her eyes, giving herself up to the kettle's roaring undertow, the thud and rattle of the fridge door closing, the chiming of a spoon against china mugs, Kate's low humming to herself, the central-heating radiators coming to life, clicking and easing.

A commercial that Mr. Addicks showed, by the Saatchi & Saatchi division of the Publicis Groupe, began with people from all walks of life clicking their heels together like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" and ended with a family coming home to a meal with Pillsbury crescent rolls.

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