Sentence examples for unhappy existence from inspiring English sources

The twins were interested in writing, which provided them with some release from their unhappy existence.

Ten van Goghs appeared in a 1956 biopic of the artist's brief unhappy existence, "Lust for Life", starring Kirk Douglas.

But for those who still cling to that ideal in Britain today, it's a lonely and unhappy existence.

Not only in Argentina, leading the unhappy existence of a refugee, but also in the courtroom of Jerusalem, with his life as good as forfeited, he might still have expressed a preference — if anybody had asked him — for being hanged as an S.S. Obersturmbannführer a.D. (that is, in retirement) over living out his life quietly and normally as a travelling salesman for the Vacuum Oil Company.

At any rate, having launched Gauri on this course of action, the novel toils on through several more decades of its ramifications, chronicling Bela and Subhash's largely unhappy existences in a glum narrative of withdrawal, rejection, isolation and guilt, all done with Lahiri's usual tasteful restraint, though I have to say that in this instance even this virtue becomes problematic.

As an adult he lived an unhappy bohemian existence, which brought him into contact with the problems of the colony in which he lived.

According to Michael Sheehan, a Southern California Ferrari historian and broker, Ferrari is unhappy with the existence of these cars today and has discouraged some of the more prominent auction companies from consigning replicas or converted cars at the coming sales in Monterey.

In our study, community members were unhappy with the existence of IPV as indicated by the category ' Viewed as discreditable and unfair'.

He & his wife were in their middle fifties and very unhappy at their narrow existence.

Since the successful attack on the centre of global capitalism was evidently perpetrated by Islamic extremists unhappy with the very existence of western civilisation, observers have been handicapping the Huntington "clash" view over my own "end of history" hypothesis.

By the same token, it seems that neither was Molly Drake unhappy for the world to go on turning, oblivious to her existence.