Sentence examples for of a lived from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rembert's work is important because it offers an unvarnished view of the segregated South, from the vantage of a lived history.

Nancy Sherman, a moral philosopher at Georgetown, told me, "Martha changed the face of philosophy by using literary skills to describe the very minutiae of a lived experience".

"Perhaps the soul lives on in the products of the mind," Nathan says at one point, going on to rhapsodize abstractly about "the working formula of a lived experience, the feeling unfolding in a new mind".

Each profile is only a snapshot, a single still frame lifted from the unrecountable complexity of a lived life, and there is a world more to know about each of these victims, as their survivors understand only too well.

The hand in a black-chalk self-portrait, from around 1510 by the Florentine artist Fra Bartolommeo, may move at less than Rembrandt speed, but still moves pretty fast, fast enough to give the image the tension of a lived moment.

Self-improvement of the kind Thoreau undertook has become the province of self-help manuals, while impassioned complaints against our civilization (as much a part of Rousseau and Thoreau or, for that matter, Henry Miller, as introspection is) are rarely placed in the context of a lived daily life.

A biography of a living person should not.

The house reminded him of "a living Andy Warhol picture".

Women's soccer wasn't much of a living.

We are not speaking of euthanasia, which consists in hastening the death of a living person.

Such is the nature of a living language.