Sentence examples for merely subsisting from inspiring English sources

Such heights of pleasure are unsustainable, of course, and the early years of their marriage are a steady drone of merely subsisting.

Throughout history, we've always found ways to make our basic survival require less of our human focus, and we've witnessed subsequent booms in new professions — specifically, vocations that didn't relate directly to merely subsisting, but thriving.

The new version remains true to the writer's vision but adds Anderson's own philosophical twist: the animals, in their underground exile, don't merely subsist, they prosper; they are sheltered from the wild winds of nature and predators, while enjoying the pleasures and comforts that only human culture can offer.

Like all other (possible) ideal objects, they can merely subsist.

If an object that subsists also exists, it is a real object, but if an object that subsists cannot exist (i.e., can merely subsist), it is an ideal object.

The manipulative prevail; the hopeful and decent merely subsist.

There is a sense that in her bid to survive she has merely been subsisting; the notion of making plans or putting down roots has become a luxury.

Nessa and Blaise are attempting not merely to survive and subsist but to live, and the job that Nessa gets is a first step, not merely in terms of personal responsibility and financial independence but also in terms of daily aesthetics, of the adornments and the pleasures that raise existence into life.

But the family is subsisting rather than living.

But he subsists on a shaky network.

But they subsist on a self-reinforcing argument.