Sentence examples for mere living from inspiring English sources

Mere living beings, by contrast, relate to objects in their environment not as objects, but as that which satisfies the drives.

The Roman Stoic Seneca, who was himself compelled to commit suicide, was even bolder, claiming that since "mere living is not a good, but living well", a wise person "lives as long as he ought, not as long as he can".

Mr. McDonald says he wants to be there for his children, but he also wants to be more than a mere "living presence".

The business of 'government' shifts into the imprecise mere living of those involved (we never, for instance, find out what was going on in the Bunch of Grapes).

Legrand is well aware of the predatory moralizing restrictions on women's behavior that judges their behavior cruelly, boots them from respectable society, and forces them, for a mere living, into selling themselves as Lulu does.

These readings generally identify the "proper" political order with that of the eu zen (i.e., a conception of the good) as opposed to a zen (conceived as an order of mere living).

Or were they mere scavengers, living on the leftovers of nature's predators and whatever plants they came across?

I wonder why I'm alive among mere mortals, living in a fountain of second youth, because, by all accounts, I was supposed to die.

I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life.

… The mere thought of living alone once sparked anxiety, dread and visions of loneliness.

The mere thought of living alone once sparked anxiety, dread and visions of loneliness.