Sentence examples for plain living from inspiring English sources
In the early 6th century BC, Anacharsis, a Scythian sage had combined plain living together with criticisms of Greek customs in a manner which would become standard among the Cynics.
I spoke about how as a father of three young girls, every night I went to bed worried about whether my children would be safe from violence at their school, when visiting a public shopping mall, or just plain living their lives.
Read Ange Mlinko, a contemporary poet skilled enough to pull of rhyming potatoes with tattoos to end her poem "The Grind":[3] spooning up Aphrodite / to Greek porticoes, and our potatoes, / and plain living which might be / shaken by infinitesimal tattoos.
The house was plainly furnished and the couple lived a simple life, described by Janet Ashbee in 1906 as "bananas and brown bread on the table; no hot water; plain living and high thinking and strenuous activity for the betterment of the World".
Just plain living and plain food.
Otherwise, Hodgkin's life was an exemplary case of plain living and high thinking.
The Nullarbor plain lives up to its legend of unimaginable flatness.
In "Origins," Maalouf focuses mainly on his grandfather Botros, a schoolteacher who, having failed in business (he wanted to grow tobacco in the Bekaa plain), lives instead "between notebooks and inkwells"; and on his more successfully entrepreneurial great uncle Gebrayel (his grandfather's younger brother), who left Lebanon in late 1895 for the United States and three years later for Cuba.
Once a year, their sons leave the villages all together to graze cattle in the nearby plains, living outdoors for two months, dancing and practising wrestling (the traditional sport of Nuba people) in a collective experience called "Fariq".
Doctorow's great topic was, in Don DeLillo's words, "the reach of American possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences of history".
The live cultures or bacteria in plain live yoghurt have been said for generations to boost beneficial gut microflora, particularly when you have taken antibiotics.
