Only on the basis of this religious perception of their age have men always chosen from the endlessly varied spheres of art that art which transmitted feelings making religious perception operative in actual life.
It will be seen that we here assume for the process known as competition a degree of perfection which it does not attain in actual life.
In actual life there is friction to be overcome in the making of such transfers, and this constitutes one of the subjects of the theory of Economic Dynamics and will in later chapters be fully considered.
Men's products, even in the disturbed conditions of actual life, set the standards to which their returns tend to conform, though they vary from them in ways that we shall not fail to notice.
How they are forced away from their standards by the changes and disturbances of actual life, and how the standards themselves change with social development, will be the subject of the latter part of this treatise.
In the former he is given as a prey to all the storms of actual life, and to the influence of the present; he must struggle, suffer, and die like the brute.
But this is not the opinion of men who live more in words than in deeds, who have seen more on paper and in books than in actual life, and who in their greatest degeneracy become pedants and lovers of the mere letter.
In actual life, of course, there are no very ends: life exhibits a continuous sequence of causation stretching on: and since a story has to have an end, its conclusion must in any case belie a law of nature.
Doubtless an omniscient mind would realize a reason for every accidental and apparently insignificant occurrence of actual life.
He must first observe carefully certain facts of actual life, study them in the light of extended experience, and induce from them the general laws which he deems to be the truths which underlie them.
The thread that binds it to actual life is a very fragile one.
Hence it follows that the elements of comic character on the stage and in actual lifewill be the same.
But in that case let it be kept outside the sphere of actual life.
The realism of actual life, madam, that’s what it is.
Kirkegaard used to claim that he ever wrote existentially, pricked on by the exigencies of actual life, to attempt their expression in terms of that life, and in view of its further spiritual development.
The most exaggerated ideas of chivalry contained in the romances were adopted in actual life.
Philomela is almost the only tale which makes any pretence to being a description of actual life, or which deals with possible incidents.
In the age of Elizabeth the writers of fiction neither studied the characters and manners of the men about them, nor aimed at any reflection of actual life.
The authors of these compositions, from their tendency to idealization, held up to their readers a higher view of virtue in every respect than was practised in actual life, and in their writings, conjugal infidelity is of constant occurrence.
If it fails in actual life, it fails altogether; and the one fatal objection to this particular system is that it does not work.
It is true that probably only the separateness of God was originally seen to be asserted in the first, and the words may possibly have been understood to mean that the "other gods" referred to had some kind of actual life.
They made an agreement to follow these Divine commands, these God-given principles, in actual life.
All that the critic can hope to do is to point out how the figures on the stage compare with previous tradition and convention on the one hand, and with the characters of actual life on the other.
We had a right to expect in each of them a certain idiosyncrasy; and it is not easy to maintain an individuality which does not dwell in mere caricature and exaggeration, but in the truthful traits of actual life.
And who is there that has not seen the parallel in actual life?
I mean merely that the people whom the dramatist has conceived must act and speak at all points consistently with the laws of their imagined existence, and that these laws must be in harmony with the laws of actual life.
In actual life, truth is buried beneath a bewilderment of facts.
In actual life we meet characters of two different classes, which (borrowing a pair of adjectives from the terminology of physics) we may denominate dynamic characters and static characters.
He gave too much attention to these unremunerative studies of types she never met in actual life.
What wonderful thoughts you have I One has read, of course, of wives who inspired their husbands' work; but it seemed to belong to books rather than to actual life.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actual life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
