Sentence examples for thwarted death from inspiring English sources

Like the proverbial cat, my feline mother has thwarted death on multiple occasions – in the Warsaw uprising of 1944, she was a Home Army messenger: she lost her younger brother, her sister and her fiancé (my brother, although he does not know it, is named after this boy).

Arrested and sentenced to die himself, Ben thwarted death a second time by miraculously escaping from a Ukrainian prison.

In Everyman he plays a character who is scared of dying; who embarks on a journey to thwart death.

He is confused and repelled by, but also helplessly sympathetic to, his egomaniacal father's desire to thwart death on behalf of the woman he loves.

On this view, Epicureans cannot show that desires are harmlessly thwarted by death and posthumous events on the grounds that such desires are past at the time death or posthumous events thwart them.

Hercules, the son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmene, was strong enough to strangle snakes as an infant (thus thwarting a death wish from his stepmother, Hera).

We care whether Stevens can thwart the death of his new inamorata, or whether he finds (as one review cleverly put it) that the past is a "read-only" file that can't be changed.

Are there other signaling pathways that can thwart cell death?

If already satisfied, or given up, a desire cannot be thwarted, even by death, so as we lose our motivation for living, death ceases to be objectionable to us.

Evans met Hendrix through Davis, and the guitarist's death thwarted their plan to make an instrumental album together.

Instead of desiring that some project of mine succeed, which is a desire that might be thwarted by my death, I might instead adopt a conditionalized version of this desire, namely: should I live on, let my project succeed.