Sentence examples for notion of mortality from inspiring English sources

Another story of yours, "Bad Dreams," which was published in The New Yorker last year, also involved a young girl grappling with the notion of mortality.

What came through was an encounter between two mysterious sprites and a bus conductor that was as delicate as a bit of floating ember and almost as unnerving as the notion of mortality.

Hayflick, now 71, is a well-known cell biologist; his discovery in 1961 that normal human cells grown in a test tube simply stop dividing after a specific number of cell divisions, known as the Hayflick limit, in effect introduced the notion of mortality into the biology of aging.

Two control-theoretical issues are treated to this end: as a new paradigm, the construction of flat dynamical systems, and on the other hand, the notion of mortality of a set of matrices, a problem which is in general not decidable.

The album explores notions of mortality, and T Bone Burnett's stripped-down production evoked the bygone era that Williams inhabited.

But instead of adding to that sorry figure, Conrad was about to join a group of people who are challenging our notions of mortality.

In "San," for cello and tape, the inventive composer Du Yun evoked the sounds of a qin (pronounced chin; an ancient Chinese zither) with broad glissandos and bone-dry plucks, while also contemplating notions of distance, mortality and memory through grainy, gritty outbursts of noise and keening echoes.

Last year, his "Gran Torino" proved to be, among other things, his brutal submission to the notion of his own mortality; now, according to Dave McNary at Variety, he'll be producing and directing "Hereafter," starring Matt Damon: For Eastwood, the project's a move into supernatural territory.

Our study of a contemporary cohort of ACS patients suggests that the notion of DM increasing mortality risk in all ACS sufferers needs to be revisited.

In fact the TPR equals the PPV here because the same fraction (2.5%) has been used to define the action limit and to specify the notion of high preventable mortality.

Further, some studies have relied on relative inequality measures without notions of trends in mortality or absolute mortality differentials [ 9, 12, 13, 16].