Sentence examples for life observed from inspiring English sources

In the Times Book Review, the reviewer of Leila Sales's Y.A. novel "This Song Will Save Your Life" observed that its heroine "is a mostly relatable misfit".

Moreover, Darwin – who studied plants meticulously for most of his life, observed that the radicle – the root tip – "acts like the brain of one of the lower animals".

Life observed that her name had ceased to refer to an actual person and, instead, had become "a synonym for etiquette and manners, more widely used perhaps than even the words themselves".

Above all, though, the book is a stirring celebration of what Fraser, reflecting near the end of Pinter's life, observed as a union "to the infinite degree happy beyond all possible expectations".

Later in my teens I went on to read more of her poetry and her short stories, which were brilliant vignettes of life observed: these often described the lonesomeness of women when love goes astray.

But Gallace seems less to revive that impulse than to arrive at its basis, in a view of modern art that values the visual poetics of life observed in the living of it.

Mr. Ciccone acknowledged the costs of the mob life, observing, "We destroy any [expletive] thing we go near".

"There is just too much rage floating around in society to make it worth any risk of your well-being, or even your life," observes Phyllis Lutzker.

In The Laws of Simplicity (MIT Press, £12.95, pp176), John Maeda uses elegant, humble prose to provide an accessible guide, business and life, observing the principle: 'Simplicity equals sanity'.

Robert B. Menschel, senior director of the Goldman Sachs Group and author of "Markets, Mobs and Mayhem: A Modern Look at the Madness of Crowds" (John Wiley & Sons), has spent much of his life observing irrational behavior in financial markets.

Re "In the Chaos of Homelessness, Calendars Mean Nothing," (Cases, Dec. 20): The writer, a psychiatrist who counsels in homeless shelters, recounts her experience with a patient incapable of making appointments or coping with life, observing: "The solution is unclear".