death in life
Example Sentences
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Half a century later, E4’s Drifters continues that venerable riff on urban Yorkshire as death in life.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2014
He lives a kind of death in life.
From Reuters • Jul. 26, 2012
Late, rich middle age, especially in Manhattan, is a kind of death in life �sterile, futile, hopelessly preoccupied with the past, most depressingly so when earlier years have been marked by great drama or endeavor.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the doctor slips in and gives Laura a hypo, the chorus chants the moral: "The only death in life is the death of love."
From Time Magazine Archive
To call this time a death in life seems an overstatement, but if my experiences in Turkey had any mental value at all, it was just this: to teach me how to die.
From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis
