Jem's adult life is defined by absence, or the threat thereof.
"You can start to believe that your life is defined by your foreignness," she says.
And a large part of that way of life is defined by football/soccer.
The criteria by which the good life is defined are premoral, unconcerned with good and evil.
Even before her mother hires her out as a maid, Christine's life is defined by domination and loss.
An actor's life is defined by a series of entrances and exits, some more auspicious than others.
My life is defined by my friends and by my interests, and I happen to be passionate about good design.
Here life is defined and ordered by the daily routines of farm life and nature's larger seasonal rhythms of renewal and decay.
Like many of the 216,000 Americans who will receive hip replacements this year, his life is defined by chronic, debilitating pain.
As psychologists have found, a prodigy's life is defined by a particular narrative arc — one that often ends, as Ms. Travers's did, with early promise unfulfilled.
In other words, life is defined in terms of interactions, relationships, and collective properties of many molecular systems and their parts.
