Without being overtly political, the personal anecdotes about Hillary Clinton's work for women and children and her successes in changing their lives amounted to an unambiguous message.
Nagel's advice that we approach our seeming insignificance with a sense of irony is no help, Zaretsky thinks, because it would mean that our lives amount to "little more than a cosmic episode of Seinfeld".
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, Charles Brown and Viola Davis have been nominated for their portrayals of characters trying to make their constricted lives amount to something in Pittsburgh's hardscrabble Hill District during the 1980's.
It was "an absence of evidence, rather than evidence of absence" that persuaded most researchers that biological clocks don't exist in organisms whose fleeting lives amount to less than a day, says Susan Golden, a molecular biologist at Texas A&M University and a report co-author.
While conversations about diversity and representation onstage ― primarily having to do with race and gender ― have become more mainstream, actors with disabilities are still waiting to tell their own stories, to have their lives amount to more than a plot device.
In "Appointment in Samarra," there was nothing about Julian English that we did not know and want to know, but Grace Caldwell Tate is a fatally uninteresting woman, and her rage to live rarely amounts to more than pique.
Open image in new window Fig. 11 Live cell amounts as a function of helium plasma exposure times.
His live show amounted to him, alone onstage, manically doing karaoke to his own songs.
A United Nations panel ruled earlier this year that Assange's living situation amounts to arbitrary detention.
In the study period, the number of live births amounted to 187,910 [ 21].
