Sentence examples for side of existence from inspiring English sources

On this view, to focus on the material side of existence is to turn away from the eternal and divine.

Despite his good looks, he does come across markedly un-sexual, especially for someone who routinely celebrates the sexual side of existence.

David Orr is correct in pointing out ("On Poetry," May 24) that Frederick Seidel is fascinated by "the darker side of existence".

There has always been a debate over what literature is and what's it for, because it is a mysterious thing, and the mysterious side of existence, certainly for secular people, is not an urgent problem.

Since neither physics nor Darwinian biology — the concept of evolution — can account for the emergence of a mental world from a physical one, Nagel contends that the mental side of existence must somehow have been present in creation from the very start.

Hesiod has an essentially serious outlook on life and is an artist who deals with the gloomier side of existence, relating, in his Theogony, the bloody power struggle among the divine dynasts Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus, while his Works and Days demonstrates that, in Hesiod's immediate circle at any rate, mankind's situation on earth was equally deplorable during what he calls the "age of iron".

Of course, the gun and the baby represent the flip sides of existence, annihilation and renewal.

Bradley says that "[e]very kind of fact must possess these two sides of existence and content" where "content" refers to what Bradley calls the "complex of qualities and relations" a fact contains.

"A work of self-commemoration that takes the side of continuing existence," it "shimmers with the dark radiance -- the stark beauty -- of last things," Edward Hirsch wrote here in 2002.

"Theme-park accidents, such as those at Alton Towers, and the recent efforts of Banksy in producing a theme-park parody, are all reminders of the ways in which theme parks reflect a dark and disturbing side of our existence".

LaFleur summarises Watsuji's position: "the social side of human existence 'empties' the individuated side of any possible priority or autonomy and the individuated side does something exactly the same and exactly proportionate to and for the social side.