Life grinding against death, and losing.
People respond to Little Edie's refusal to let life grind her down, to her flamboyant insistence that there is always something worth celebrating, some new show to put on.
Knowing the remaining useful life of grinding mill liners would greatly facilitate maintenance decisions.
Admittedly, it's a life that grinds you down.
We will fly into Tel Aviv on a Friday afternoon and wanted to take a bus straight to Jerusalem but I understand that as this will be Shabbat, public transport stops and life generally grinds to a halt for 24 hours.
The rigors of life can grind you down.
His wife had died, leaving him with a brood of tiny children and a life of grinding hardship.
The young Italian woman in the film, named Marilù, had left a bourgeois household for a life of grinding labor and poverty in Paris.
Yet ever since an election in June 2009 which the opposition claim was rigged by Mr Berisha, normal parliamentary life has ground to a halt.
With parades and concerts and flamboyant kitsch, Hanoi is celebrating its 1,000th anniversary on Sunday, and much of city life has ground to a halt to make way for it.
