Sentence examples for surfaces of life from inspiring English sources

Inspiration came to her in the form of "odd personalities" who persist in ruffling the surfaces of life.

Minnelli, of course, has one of the cinema's most superbly, floridly decorative imaginations, displaying a painterly eye for texture and color, line and movement, as well as an ear for voices and music — for the surfaces of life.

It offers wise counsel about "skating over the surfaces of life" and confining our existence to the "mid-world".

Ferocity with which we cling to the surface of life.

But sometimes the surface of life cracked.

As Dr Johnson himself noted, the best biographies are "levelled with the general surface of life".

"I do things quite purposefully now to get out on the surface of life," she said.

Askew as her perception of the surface of life is, she tends to be right about the things that matter.

He was a literary artist of laconic precision who probed below the surface of life, laying bare the secret motives of his characters.

In the beginning, someone is missing, or someone has been murdered; corruption festers under the prosperous surface of life; the time is out of joint.

Like Chabrol, he is interested in killing not as an irruption from outside but as something that rises naturally to the surface of life.