Sentence examples for straight life from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Gravano apparently chafed against the straight life.

Frank Marshall is living exactly the sort of straight life that Fitch hoped to escape.

Look at me," he said, daring the class to imply that the straight life had rendered him less modish.

Mr. Adams was adjusting to the straight life at the time, and filling his lyrics with the language of recovery.

"I have always lived a straight life, never done stupid things, I have never gone beyond the limit," said Ms Hooper, who lives in the Isle of Wight.

The implication was that he'd been with men before and then decided — in a way that suggested a proleptic sacrifice — to martyr himself with a straight life.

Borge always claimed that his deadpan humour succeeded because it was simple and drawn straight from life.

It's not hard to imagine a small child watching Hellbound Train and being scared straight for life.

In the hands of the French existentialists, this means, as Bakewell puts it, a philosophy that goes "straight to life".

He further insisted that illustrators draw not from photographs, which was then the accepted method, but straight from life.

Part of the thrill for Chauncey, at first, is the fact that Ned is no nance; he has lived a straight, married life with a woman.