Sentence examples for mere life from inspiring English sources

The claims of art against mere life have never been made more forcefully.

She takes us from the florid grandiosity of Western myth to the bone-wearying stress of mere life.

The polis "grows for the sake of mere life," he wrote, "but it exists for the sake of a good life".

But the dispute between Fanny and Mr Brown isn't simply between female and male love, it is between matrimony and vocation, between mere life and high art.

Nietzsche was himself an amateur pianist and composer: the kind of worshipful outsider for whom music seemed, as Safranski notes, the "authentic reality and colossal power," far beyond anything that mere life could offer.

Since the foundation's emergency appeal last summer to raise a $15 million cushion for operating expenses, it has collected only a little more than $1.5 million in major pledges and donations, a sum that amounts to mere life support.

This spread like wildfire and led Netscape's founders to speculate (hubristically) that the browser would eventually become the only piece of software that computer users really needed – thereby relegating the operating system to a mere life-support system for the browser.

The mere life-value of solidarity is elevated to the spiritual value of respect for others.

Everything is temporary, except the rhythm of mere animal life.

I would not be a mere night-life tourist but would earn admission as a writer at a real newspaper.

It is not mere quantity of life that matters, but its quality; and since dying is a part of life, a good death, free of suffering, is part of a good life.