nonbeing

Example Sentences

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Amleth, as he is called, is no student philosopher, temporizing over the nuances of being and nonbeing.

From New York Times

And not only the real — after all, even the basest trivialities are real — but the omnipresent, the immanent and the imminent, the stuff of being and nonbeing.

From Los Angeles Times

And so that step backward into nonbeing is not one they’ve had to take.”

From New York Times

But in the insomniac’s self-satisfaction there is also, perhaps, a genuine fear of the nonbeing, the nullity, of sleep.

From The New Yorker

Words do more than hurt, they also slash and burn in this sharp, dyspeptic, sometimes gaspingly funny exploration of art and life, men and women, being and nonbeing, and the power and limits of language.

From New York Times