Sentence examples for pole of life from inspiring English sources
We'll read with acute interest and write up the results, assuming that we aren't feeling all existential and sad about our lowly position on the great totem pole of life.
They seemed like wealthy decision makers, high up enough on the totem pole of life to spend a lazy, humid weekday afternoon thinking hard about what they were going to wear that weekend, while back in an office somewhere, underlings in lesser clothes hammered out spreadsheet-dense memos and tried not to leak the details to DealBook.
Montreal's Clarian has been shimmying his way up the cosmic musical totem pole of life.
These opposite poles of life are dressed in identical trappings, and we're invited to react to them with a single, limited set of coded responses.
This incipient impatience with fiction makes sense, since Dyer's working method in many of the literary essays is to squeeze the poles of life and art as close together as possible: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Ford and James Salter are each, in turn, presented to an X-ray that tries to pinpoint the skeleton of real life behind the distracting flesh of fiction.
They were relics of a time before rationalism ruled the Western world when blind faith in the divine was the pole star of life.
Gray crisply tracks the lives of the six undergrads up and down (mostly down) the greased pole of literary life.
The kiva is one pole of Pueblo ceremonial life.
The smell of hay and the wary gaze of cows became part of White's rural days, just as the subway and pigeons were at the other pole of his elliptical life, as a writer for The New Yorker from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Perhaps more could have been done and sooner, and less grudgingly, but thousands of Poles from all walks of life and every political stripe aided Jews in defiance of draconian Nazi laws.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, capitalism brought Poles their fairy-tale visions of life in the West, particularly fast-food restaurants and cocktail bars.
