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Examples
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But through these five years of death-in-life I managed to attain freedom such as few men have ever known.
Chapter 1 2010
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What is bothering me at this point is not so much the mystical, life-in-death, death-in-life conclusion.
Tom Gliatto: Yes, I Am Still Mad at LOST Tom Gliatto 2010
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As he prepares to take leave of his old metal bed, Dai Wei realizes that the rich, imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside.
Beijing Coma: Summary and book reviews of Beijing Coma by Ma Jian. 2008
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The ponderous prose, the horror stories of cruelty and abuse, the death-in-life Neverland of the street children, and the life-in-death of the wraithlike Radiant Boy subvert the novel and diminish its aesthetic success.
Brooklyn Bridge: Summary and book reviews of Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse. 2008
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As I now see it, salvation has come to mean deliverance, and deliverance right now, from the death-in-life routine that we often settle for, the sleepwalking life for which I, and maybe you, have often settled in the past.
Scott Cairns: Rethinking Salvation: A One-Time Personal Event or a Continuous, Collective Effort? 2010
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What is bothering me at this point is not so much the mystical, life-in-death, death-in-life conclusion.
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As I now see it, salvation has come to mean deliverance, and deliverance right now, from the death-in-life routine that we often settle for, the sleepwalking life for which I, and maybe you, have often settled in the past.
Scott Cairns: Rethinking Salvation: A One-Time Personal Event or a Continuous, Collective Effort? 2010
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The denial of death-in-life has left us habitually shopping, hoping to right some internal imbalance that we sense but the Christmas marketing denies with desperate force.
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That's why people sometimes speak of these conditions as death-in-life.
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Glenn Close captures this death-in-life with chilling effect.
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