Sentence examples for vanquish death from inspiring English sources

Our need to vanquish death has brought to center stage a new cultural archetype: Dirty Harrys with scalpels who have little patience for bureaucrats and ethical subtleties.

But everyone who knows some fairy tales knows that no one ever wins when they try to vanquish death.

I have to admit that it bothers me that some of these websites are trying to vanquish death by offering e-mortality.

Rahul dreams of being Indiana Jones and vanquishing death with a whip and a map.

Ah, Aslan explains, it is the "deep magic", where pure sacrifice alone vanquishes death.

His attraction to the priesthood had been a way of vanquishing death and avoiding birth.

Their beloved bear has been slotted into a formulaic children's blockbuster in which lessons are learnt, baddies are vanquished, death is narrowly avoided, and digital effects are everywhere.

The corrida is presented as an idealized drama in which the matador faces death, creating a moment of existentialism or nada (nothingness), broken when he vanquishes death by killing the bull.

The general resistance of the Pope's body is apparently slowly diminishing, and the hour when it will finally be vanquished by death seems to be nearer every day.

During the Battle of Crécy, for instance, Edward III refuses to help his besieged son, noting that if he dies, "we have more sons than one to comfort our declining age," but if he wins, "he will have vanquished, cheerful, death and fear".

Such statements appear at odds with the popular vision of the Silicon Valley tech mogul, and especially with the image of Thiel, who has lately set his sights on vanquishing aging and death.