lifework
Example Sentences
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There followed a long period when silent films were virtually unmarketable, and the lifework of many actors and directors disappeared into warehouses or dissolved into silver.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Music was the springboard for Harry Belafonte’s lifework: a career that leveraged cultural recognition toward political goals, and that recognized artistic achievements as both pleasures in themselves and symbols to wield.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Wiener’s lifework and his failure to predict its consequences are intimately bound up in the idea of an impending technological singularity.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
"They feel that Disney is undoing their lifework of conserving wild animals for future open seasons."
From Time ● Aug. 8, 2017
She will be returned when the lies that surround the lifework of Johannes Vermeer have been corrected.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
