He flogs these types into semi-life by means of Ellery Queen devices, including the depressing one of funny names.
In a world where conventional reproduction has become obsolete, these infantlike black creatures covered in stars are entrusted to lonely, semi-life-size women crowned by floating halos that evoke Renaissance Madonnas.
In its semi-life, lived for a single day, it had caused nothing, known nothing, created nothing other than pain; so it wanted me to pardon it, before it could drift away.
I don't know how long she will be on this earth or for how much longer she will be able to live a semi normal life.
Oh, Go -- you are, to me, a true 90s masterpiece ("Semi Charmed Life" on the soundtrack! Jokes about Mazda Miata's!).
If they, on the off chance, have a semi successful life, we deem them to be lucky, but never well and truly deserving, "I mean, she's not even pretty".
They live a semi-nomadic life.
You'd become something of a celebrity, but you resumed your semi-private life.
There is, he says, an advantage to the semi-invisible life.
"We were slightly left-wing Zionists" living a semi-bohemian life style, Schama said.
For five years Oleg and Dmitriy led a low-key semi-closeted life.
