Sentence examples for life of drudgery from inspiring English sources

Happe-Chair (1886), composed before but published after Zola's Germinal, deals with the life of drudgery led by mill workers.

For some – only a tiny number, of course – stepping into the ring has been a means to escape a life of drudgery and poverty.

It was literally my one chance to express myself or to resign myself to a life of drudgery in a factory.

When I first saw it, I thought the boy had arrived in London from the provinces, escaping his life of drudgery in the north or the Midlands.

Pekar wrote about his life of drudgery and disappointment working as a file clerk at the federal Department of Veterans Affairs in Cleveland, Ohio.

Played by the Icelandic pop singer Bjork, Selma escapes her life of drudgery with fantasies that place her at the center of an idiosyncratic movie musical.

Here is the banality of evil from everyday life, out of drudgery, and that is key to why it's all so frightening.

Women in particular face a life sentence of drudgery without energy access.

Their very existence seems to have expanded the girls' sense of the possible beyond a life of domestic drudgery.

Is a life of unremitting drudgery or unrequited struggle really redeemed if there's a larger plan, one to which we have no access, into which it fits?

Their wires and rigs, bulwarks and pinrails, embody an escapist fantasy, removed from the slow and heavy things that weigh down the architect's life of earthbound drudgery.