Sentence examples for life flat from inspiring English sources
But make no mistake, reductionism comes at a very steep price: it asks you to hammer your own life flat.
It's what keeps the nature of self and daily life flat to the point of boredom.
Two-dimensional video on our screens is smaller than life and flat and not in real time, but we ignore those facts and immerse ourselves in the stories as if they were real.
"Nothing in life is flat," she said.
Or perhaps everything: all of a life, rolled flat.
The case for 3-D is often framed as a case for realism: 3-D seems truer to life than flat 2-D.
A few feet down the corridor, Galina Korneyev, the 64-year-old who has spent almost half her life in flat 7, grabs her head, stunned by Mrs. Konyenko's resistance.
The result of all the literary pyrotechnics, and the way they call attention to the writing itself, is that scenes that should be unbearably emotional — as when Robert is visited by his teenage daughter for the first time in many years and she sees the squalor of his life — fall flat, because we have no visceral connection with the characters.
Or this from 1888, which I used in my last book, where Van Gogh was rushed on stage in the epilogue, like a slightly sozzled deus-ex-machina, to rescue Darwin and Lincoln from the taint of too-much rationalism: They persist nowadays in believing that life is flat and runs from birth to death.
It's a life of flat wages and irregular hours.
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