Sentence examples for private existence from inspiring English sources

He resigned from Parliament soon after, and has led an essentially private existence since then.

"The modesty of life": friends, family, culture, a rich private existence cultivated against the fraudulent and intrusive state.

Since his escape to northern Cyprus in 1993, Mr. Nadir has lived a quiet and private existence, very much removed from his time as a business celebrity in London.

Talking so freely about your life helps you to know the weight of those feelings which are too vague, or too spiritual, to express — left unspoken and unexplored, they throw your own private existence into relief.

In the original formulation, Mr. Clinton was going to retreat to a quiet, dignified and lucrative private existence, giving speeches, writing his memoirs, and -- following the model of former President Jimmy Carter -- associating himself with some sort of good works.

Slavery was quintessentially an institution of exclusion: the slave first and foremost was someone who did not belong to and had no claims on the public order, nor any legitimate private existence, since both were appropriated by the slaveholder.

Certainly their use is continuing to spread, and the detail with which they carry out surveillance of our private existences is on the increase.

In her essay, "We Refugees," the philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote, "We fight like madmen for private existences with individual destinies".

From the interviews, it became clear that these public shareholders opt for active ownership (pursuing public policies through their ownership of shares), rather than passive, where ownership is merely a means to bringing a private enterprise in existence as a 'public-task agent' or safeguarding its existence (but not interfering in its activities) [30].

Mulligan is interested in the small spaces — the private moments — of existence; Tom, by contrast, likes watching himself.

Mulligan is interested in the small spaces — the private moments — of existence; Nighy's Tom, by contrast, likes watching himself.