Sentence examples for marginal existence from inspiring English sources

In "Rock-and-Roll-Fantasy" a young man whose entire life is wrapped up in music slowly fades into the margins of his already marginal existence.

Walcott began to speak of his marginal existence.

But it led him to a penniless and marginal existence.

"Fassbinder often repeated that there was no such thing as a marginal existence," he said.

He lost his job and lived a marginal existence in Brooklyn and, for many years, in Harlem.

The performers of this music and its accompanying dances live a marginal existence, admired as artists, but scorned for exposing themselves to the male gaze.

Waldo Salt adapted James Leo Herlihy's novel about a pair small-time hustlers in New York gimpy Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and Texas transplant Joe Buck Jon Voightt)—who unexpectedly bond in the course of living their marginal existences.

The group's second album, "Take This to Your Grave" (2003), appeared on an independent punk-rock label called Fueled by Ramen — the name refers to the marginal existences of touring bands — and the drummer, Andy Hurley, still claims to be a vegan anarchist.

And as young men in ragged T-shirts and rough wool caps — carrying the look and style of the thousands of youthful dispossessed who eke out marginal existences here, selling phone-recharge cards on the streets, for instance — they are easily identified and easily contrasted with the aging president.

But the vast majority of those fleeing Syria's civil war, including the most vulnerable, remain in the Middle East, living marginal existences with uncertain futures.

English-speaking journalists have often attributed his quasi-marginal existence to heroin addiction on the strength of his mention of methadone treatment in a magazine piece called "Beach".