Sentence examples for mining the lives from inspiring English sources

Reviewing a biography of Jorge Luis Borges in The New York Times Book Review a few years back, David Foster Wallace attacked the standard biographical procedure of mining the lives of writers for clues to their work, and vice versa.

Its modest budget, and its sensationalism, don't disqualify it from being not only entertaining but, sometimes, meaningful, mining the lives of the tortured and forgotten in the manner of certain noir or hard-boiled writers like Thompson, David Goodis and Charles Williams.

I want to search for God by mining the lives of God's image bearers.

For her rich ensemble novel "Eight Girls Taking Pictures" (Scribner, $25), Whitney Otto mined the real lives of 20th-century photographers like Imogen Cunningham and Ruth Orkin, creating linked fictional portraits full of glamour and grit.

In his depression, Joseph entangles himself with a boy prostitute who lives by mining the miners.

1995's My Life established her skill for mining the darker aspects of 90s living – depression, addiction, abuse – speaking to the tribulations of a black America ravaged by HIV/Aids, gang violence and crack epidemics.

On April 28, the roof collapsed in a western Kentucky mine, claiming the lives of two more men, both in their 20s.

Dyer's success and the way he achieved it — by isolating himself from his family and mining their lives — has shaped the fate of anyone who's ever loved him, including his sons, Andy, Jaime and Richard.

At the same time, he told me, "the conditions of roads, infrastructure, and amenities for these people are not going to change until the mining companies take the lives of their employees seriously.

And there is plenty of good writing on mathematics, too – Marcus du Sautoy, Simon Singh, Ian Stewart and others have proved impressively resourceful at mining maths and the lives of its practitioners for good stories that highlight the subject's allure, power and utility.

The mining tragedy took the lives of over a dozen of people and damaged the entire Doce River ecosystem.