Sentence examples for lives riven from inspiring English sources

But the play, as ever, is both formally audacious and strikingly humane, a portrait of lives riven by politics that never forgets to personalize the ever-blurred line in life between gain and loss.

In these books you'd find complex adventure stories, describing people whose early lives were riven by turmoil, pride and self-love.

The greatest suffering is endured, she believes, by wives, whose lives are inevitably riven with compromise, regret, and a sense of missed opportunity: in "The Marriage Sabbatical," every wife is Ibsen's Nora.

Perhaps he's living on the Rive Gauche and DHL-ing his tapes to Pakistan in the greatest deception operation in terrorist history.

The youths lived on opposing sides of the riven community.

As in Myst and Riven, the developers used live-action sequences instead of computer-generated actors and props; Irish stated that using computer graphics would have reminded players they were in a game, "which would wreck the immersion that is so critical to the Myst games".

His home was Northern Ireland and he lived in the heart of a community riven by sectarian hatred.

Prisons are filthy and riven by violence which claimed 500 lives last year.

Some flirt with fascism, and the country is riven by intolerance of those "who think, live, pray, write and speak differently".

Riven combined the pre-rendered backgrounds with live action footage, in order to increase the player's immersion level.

In a nation riven with partisan divisions, improving farm animals' often-miserable lives has emerged as a universal value.