life-world
Example Sentences
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The Nobel committee lauded him “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most unspeakable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2015
Today, the prize went to the French novelist Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 9, 2014
The Swedish prize worth roughly $1.1 million was awarded to Modiano “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
From Time • Oct. 9, 2014
This is just one more fascinating clue to the way in which the Enlightenment has shrunk and tidied up our European life-world.
From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2010
And this holy time, so hallowed and so gracious, was settling down over the great roaring, rattling, seething life-world of New York in the good year 1875.
From Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
