Attempts to get city officials to explain the (semi- existence of the uptown and the downtown A New semi- existencet immediately successful.
In some places, history itself gives an abandoned location a kind of semi-existence: the Ukrainian town of Pripyat for example, which was evacuated after a huge explosion at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in 1986 spread radiation throughout the local area, contaminating neighbouring farmland.
Human spammer Serina, who lives a semi-hooker existence, drops brand names at every opportunity.
They are all told, it seems, by the same female character, whose semi-reclusive existence the tales revolve around.
Did our quadrupedal, pre-hominid ancestors lead a semi-aquatic existence before emerging as the hairless bipeds we eventually became?
Fine art The father of the Post-Impressionists, Paul Cézanne, lived a semi-hermetic existence in Aix-en-Provence.
Maybe, given that many Chinese emperors succeeded the throne as children and suffered thereafter an oppressed, semi-adult existence, they do.
Here, Ip is living a modest and almost semi-retired existence teaching kung fu, but finding himself involved in rivalry with a would-be wing chun teacher, Cheung Tin-chi (Zjang Jin).
It is a move, the film suggests, from a comfortable semi-rural existence with roots to an ominous exurban no man's land of glassed-in conference rooms, rental cars and anonymous business hotels.
Eventually, conditions grew so dire that many settled into a semi-pastoral existence, establishing permanent villages amid the farming communities from which they would graze their animals in a 40- or 50-mile radius.
In his novel "Masters of Atlantis" Portis would go deepon secret societies like the Klan: their tawdry pomp, their promise to scratch the eternal itch to impose form and meaning on semi-pointless existence.
