bare existence

Like other parts of the Gulf, it was a harsh and bare existence.

Like other parts of the Gulf, it was a harsh and bare existence.

Those who escaped al-Shabab now cling to a bare existence.

This occurs when Chalmers sets out to convince us not just that simulations are real in their own right but that they are likely to improve on bare existence.

In retrospect, I wasn’t so much contemptuous as I was afraid, afraid of what their bare existence said about me and my place in the world.