Sentence examples for splinters of life from inspiring English sources

People were Daumier's raison d'être, and he captured so many splinters of life, as it was disrupted by Haussmann, that the composite portrait is as gloriously messy as Marville's photos are poised and still.

He speaks of "a splinter of life among so many others, a tiny pinprick in time, amid so much pointed loneliness".

It has the elegiac tone of a man trying to put together the disparate splinters of his life, as it follows the stories of three young music journalists, Terry, Leon and Ray, working on a music paper, "The Paper", on August 16 1977 - the day that Elvis died.

Meanwhile, the Israeli right wing, which has been weak and splintered, began showing new signs of life.

VIOLENCE -- With the air alive with shot and splinters, sea battles involve much gory loss of life and limb.

Could a man really be plucked from the body of life like a little splinter and just blow away and leave no trace?" Paul dedicates himself to what he calls the "dialysis of good deeds".

In Chimi I was able to grasp the end of each wire, unwind it and feel the fragments of life or soul that were still in me splinter, dissolve and depart.

As we chat, Gareth's radio splinters into life.

Splinters of bloodied wood lay around.

New splinters of dance music have always sparked alternative fashions.

Splinters of wood < 300 μm in diameter were clearly detected on the dark-field radiography.