Sentence examples for shun death from inspiring English sources

Hobbes assumes that people generally "shun death", and that the desire to preserve their own lives is very strong in most people.

People in our culture tend to shun death and try to have brief, once-and-for-all interactions with the dead.

Despite such mixed messages, early fears that treatment centres would be shunned as death traps have not, in the main, come true; many centres are full.

Shunned after his death before coming to be recognised as one of the fathers of modern painting, an exhibition of Caravaggio's work at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome this year celebrating the 400th anniversary of his death attracted 580,000 visitors.

But she ultimately shunned euphemisms for Project Death in America.

Only a further 19 were required for 150 as the death bowlers shunned the blockhole for slower balls and were savaged over the ropes at long off, midwicket and square leg.

And that has consequences ranging from social shunning and abuse to death and more death.

This is an especially easy sell if the consequences for not doing what the males claim "God's will" for women is leads to shunning, jail, beatings and/or death in far too many parts of the world.

You shun this as you do death itself.

Innocenzo was shunned and banished following Julius' death, and the love affair went down in history as the most scandalous of the papacy.

And I'm pretty sure Carolyn wasn't shunned, banished or condemned to death for divorcing one husband and taking another.