Sentence examples for sterile existence from inspiring English sources

Laroche's attractive, passionate approach to life makes Susan ask herself hard questions about her own sterile existence.

Wyneck's wife pointed out to Inge how much more fortunate she was than they, who had led a sterile existence as Swiss citizens.

Sandra Hüller is Ines, a brittle, Bucharest-based management consultant whose sterile existence is sent into a spin by her puckish, burly dad (Peter Simonischek), who rocks up in a wig and Ken Dodd-ish false teeth, variously claiming to be the German ambassador or Ion Tiriac's tennis partner.

In the film, based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, a desensitized young insomniac (Edward Norton) calls on a primal aspect of himself, personified by an anarchic 60's-style radical named Tyler Durden Brad Pittto, to blast out of a sterile existence and rebuild his masculinity.

Fearing my own eventual Lucy Jordan moment, the worst fate I could imagine — a structured, sterile, prescribed existence guided by words like "appropriate" — I decided to get a new tattoo.

Both the intuitionistic view of logic as essentially sterile, and the existence of results in intuitionistic logic that are incompatible with classical logic, depend essentially on that conception.

In fact, the double-killer image could even be a reactionary nightmare riff on the theme of the 21st-century dual-income-no-kids couple: the two freelance professionals plying their lucrative trade in return for a sterile and essentially mendacious existence and inevitably turning on each other.

nuSTORM aims at precisely measuring the neutrino cross sections, and providing a definitive statement about the existence of sterile neutrinos.

So last month 60 physicists from around the world gathered to hash out the arguments for and against the existence of sterile neutrinos and to try to decide whether it's worth staging a dedicated experiment to settle the matter.

According to the Italian-led experimental collaborations behind the proposal ICARUS and NESSiE the simultaneous measurement of muon and electron neutrinos at both near and far detectors would provide much stronger evidence for or against the existence of sterile neutrinos than is possible with just a single detector like the one used for LSND.

Significant progress was made in 1964 when Hamilton formulated the inequality in kin selection known as Hamilton's rule, which showed how eusociality in insects (the existence of sterile worker classes) and many other examples of altruistic behavior could have evolved through kin selection.