Biosphere, relatively thin life-supporting stratum of Earth's surface, extending from a few kilometres into the atmosphere to the deep-sea vents of the ocean.
The literal translation of the title of Hung's work is "a discourse on the roots of vegetables" referring to the pure, thin, life-sustaining juice of the earth, but Wilson has chosen a title that more closely embodies the original author's intention to free us from the fetters and shackles of conventional social thinking by accessing our "true mind".
In practice, Victor – surname Frankenstein – would rather spend his time intensely contemplating the tantalisingly thin line between life and death.
In the second installment of his teasing "Private Lives of Dancers," the subject is the thin line between life on and off the stage.
I saw people walking the thin line between life and death, suffering both from torture and from chronic diseases. .
Never had I imagined that giving birth would feel like a thin line between life and death -- both for me and my baby.
This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.
There are plenty of reasons why women may drop off the circuit before men and numbers thin out: life on the road is pretty lonely, you must endure awful food, and the barriers to success are greater in an industry that automatically assumes you won't be as funny as the next male standup to come along.
Hootin' and Hollerin' Tour: "The Boys Are Back in Town" By Thin Lizzy "Life in the Fastlane" by The Eagles Encore:"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
This causes the body to look "plump," "well-fed," and "ruddy"—changes that are all the more striking if the person was pale or thin in life.
Desperate to slim down, he had his GI tract rearranged in a stomach-stapling procedure which was meant to keep him thin for life.
