Sentence examples for wake is about from inspiring English sources

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In fact, no one can say quite what "Finnegans Wake" is about.

Larger than life and headed for death, K. Roth Binew Mike O'Connelll), the self-aggrandizing antihero of "The Living Wake," is about to succumb to a mysteriously punctual illness.

But you can hardly blame her when there has just been a death in the family, the wake is about to begin and the coffin is taking up most of the room, making it a tight squeeze for everyone.

Harry Burrell, representative of this view, argues that "one of the most overworked ideas is that Finnegans Wake is about a dream.

"And the title, The Wake, is about how we grieve and how every part of ourselves turns up in the grieving process joy and sorrow".

Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper; arguing that it is not "the 'universal dream' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by 'one stable somebody' whose 'earwitness' on the real world is coherently chronological".

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His greatest love affair is with himself, of course – yet we hope in vain if we do not imagine the forthcoming weeks to feature an avalanche of articles explaining how everything from nappies to night-waking is about to change Cowell's life.

"It (the performance) captured a piece of what 'Alan Wake' is about but the game is so much more.

Enki and his fellow gods were about to wake from their long desert sleep.

Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers".

Experiments in which people have lived temporarily in caves or in windowless rooms, without cues about the time, show that the natural daily sleep-wake cycle is about 25 hours.

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