Sentence examples for narrow lives from inspiring English sources

All try to flee their frustratingly narrow lives by running away from home, but, like pigeons to their coops, they cannot help returning.

It would greatly increase business confidence in Britain and it would demonstrate that we do still stand for something outside of our own narrow lives.

These narrow lives and everyday disappointments are as inconsequential as watching a load of laundry spin, but somehow also as satisfyingly mesmerising.

These awakenings, the revelations and truths his characters experience, serve as a wider awakening for the reader: through the characters' narrow lives we see the city of Dublin reveal itself.

Stories about servants offer us a two-fold consolation: unfettered access to the lives of the upper classes, as well as a kind of schadenfreude in observing the narrow lives of British servants more than a hundred years ago.

But everyone else in the tiny hamlet of Nether Bowston, in the picturesque county of Rutland, has much to say about the murders, and also about their narrow lives, and they proceed to say it in aria-like chapters that pretty much demolish all those tidy and reassuring conventions of the English country mystery.

I thought of this as nothing more than one of Vian's surrealist touches until I read "When Paris Went Dark" (Little, Brown, Ronaldd C. Rosbottom's new history of the city under German rule, out this month, and got to the chapter called "Narrowed Lives".

But if we fear change to the point that we do not accept it, we will begin to live narrow, uncurious lives.

Writing in 1894, Haggard believed that marriage was the natural state for women: "Notwithstanding the energetic repudiations of the fact that confront us at every turn, it may be taken for granted that in most cases it is the natural mission of women to marry; that – always in most cases – if they do not marry they become narrowed, live a half life only, and suffer in health of body and of mind".

Shobra is a central Cairo neighborhood, poor, working class, narrow lanes, live chickens in bamboo crates, a kerosene truck doing its rounds.

Here is the official Voters' Guide — it was distributed as a poster, with twelve steps, each illustrated: Shobra is a central Cairo neighborhood, poor, working class, narrow lanes, live chickens in bamboo crates, a kerosene truck doing its rounds.