Sentence examples for strange existence from inspiring English sources

But it is a strange existence.

The playwright Simon Stephens has been taking a fresh look at the strange existence of the serial Carmen.

It is a strange existence – training all week, knowing that there is virtually no chance of playing.

As a wizened geezer-munchkin at the beginning of his strange existence, Button is to meet Daisy, a clear-eyed, auburn-haired little girl with whom he has an instant connection that is not at all creepy or paedophilic.

It was part of the strange existence of working for a political 527; the man for whom you had subjugated everything else in your life for all these months had no way of acknowledging, or even really knowing, what you had done.

For Jonathan Gibbs in the Daily Telegraph, the "child's-eye view of the world may sound kooky, but it reads as smooth as ice-cream, and Donoghue quickly builds a compelling view of this strange existence... Does the novel give a genuine insight into what it's like to go through such an ordeal?

We leave our loved ones and live these strange existences that swing from the loneliness of the anonymous hotel room to the euphoria of the stage.

Plants, Mabey believes, are more than simply attractive or useful, having "strange existences and unquantifiable powers", which lend them "alternative solutions to living".

What these moments of excited attention shared was not so much a simple pleasure in floral beauty or the promise of new sources of imperial revenue (though these were there too) but a sense of real wonder that units of non-conscious green tissue could have such strange existences and unquantifiable powers.

After service in the First World War, the poet and composer Ivor Gurney led a strange, wandering existence marked by periods of intense creative work and mental breakdown.

The survivors escape death because they are trapped in a strange twilight existence called persistence.