Sentence examples for sociable life from inspiring English sources

Father Flood pauses from his description of the opportunities in New York, and the sociable life of his Brooklyn parish.

For people with a disability, inactivity can be the difference between a healthy, independent and sociable life or a life of dependency and despair.

Crace happily perpetuates the false stereotype of him as a "recluse", although Pynchon leads a normal, sociable life in New York City.

Several years ago, Ms. Ephron learned that she had myelodysplastic syndrome, a pre-leukemic condition, but she kept the illness a secret from all but a few intimates and continued to lead a busy, sociable life.

When Mies designed a glass house it famously tortured his client Edith Farnsworth with its cost and discomfort; when the Eameses built a glassy house for themselves it was the setting for joyful and sociable shared life.

In an essay in the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Raban considers how Barack Obama's skill as a writer will influence his Presidency, noting, "The solitary existence of the writer, recasting the world alone in a room, generally unfits him for the intensely sociable, collegial life of practical politics".

But Hobbes famously argued that such a "dissolute condition of masterlesse men, without subjection to Lawes, and a coercive Power to tye their hands from rapine, and revenge" would make impossible all of the basic security upon which comfortable, sociable, civilized life depends.

The task of such poetry, he claims in this fragment, should be to "fuse poetry and prose, inspiration and criticism, the poetry of art and the poetry of nature; and make poetry lively and sociable, and life and society poetical; poeticize wit and fill and saturate the forms of art with every kind of good, solid matter for instruction, and animate them with the pulsations of humor".

The chickens were more sociable, had normal life spans and produced higher quality eggs.

People realised that a slower, gentler, more sociable way of life was much better than the rat-race of unbridled capitalism.

But my parents' life was sociable, too.