See unalive on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1988, Richard Rossner, The Whole Story, page 14:",
"text": "She was amazed that he wasn't changed , that he wasn't hurt , or perhaps utterly unalive , murdered .",
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"text": "I wait for them to droop as in a natural cycle. But they are stubbornly unalive and therefore unwilting.",
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"text": "We don't experience a corpse as just an object; we experience it as an object that was once alive, but which no longer is. We experience it as \"unalive\" (Bt, 282).",
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"ref": "1944, International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone Research, page 186:",
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"ref": "1977, Psychotherapy & Social Science Review - Volume 11, page 4:",
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"ref": "1983, John S. McCann, The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams, page 171:",
"text": "SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . . I found ( SLS ) hollow , unproductive , unalive , and above all stagy: not cinematic.",
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"text": "Our perception labels it as negative, just like our minds have been trained to accept only the clinical and unreal, the sterile and unalive, the prepackaged and filtered.",
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"ref": "1974, William R.Parker, Elaine St. Johus, Prayer Can Change Your Life, page 229:",
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"text": "If I feel placid or unalive must I feign excitement?",
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"ref": "1978, Alvin R. Mahrer, Experiencing: A Humanistic Theory of Psychology and Psychiatry, page 268:",
"text": "Fromm ( 1968 ) refers to this as the spectre of a mechanized society in which human beings are slowly being transformed into the mechanical thing which is the society - passive, automatic, unfeeling, run by computers, unalive, a product of conditioning.",
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"ref": "2008, William Saroyan, William E. Justice, He Flies Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease, page 28:",
"text": "And for the past six months I have been separated from my writing, and I have been nothing, or I have been walking about unalive, some indistinct shadow in a nightmare of the universe.",
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"text": "Near-synonym: nonlive"
},
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"ref": "1927, Olive Higgins Prouty, Conflict: A Novel, page 69:",
"text": "John Sheldon laid down Sheilah ' s hand beside her on the bed , as if it had been a book , or something unalive, and took out of his bag near by an accessory that was almost as much a part of him as his glasses.",
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{
"ref": "1964, Eric Fromm, The Heart of Man, page 55:",
"text": "Often her anxiety will contribute toward making the child afraid of life and attracted to that which is unalive.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1988, Richard Rossner, The Whole Story, page 14:",
"text": "She was amazed that he wasn't changed , that he wasn't hurt , or perhaps utterly unalive , murdered .",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love, page 106:",
"text": "I wait for them to droop as in a natural cycle. But they are stubbornly unalive and therefore unwilting.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Heidegger: An Introduction, page 104:",
"text": "We don't experience a corpse as just an object; we experience it as an object that was once alive, but which no longer is. We experience it as \"unalive\" (Bt, 282).",
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"Not alive; dead or inanimate."
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"ref": "1929, American Association of University Women, AAUW Journal - Volumes 23-25, page 106:",
"text": "Rebecca despises her professors because they cannot think as clearly as she can, cannot argue as well as she can, and are tired and dowdy and unalive.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1936, Clement Wood, The Glory Road: An Autobiography, page 78:",
"text": "The silent city asleep at our back , joyless and unalive.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1944, International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone Research, page 186:",
"text": "No, medicine is not an art , it is a science, but a mechanistic, unalive one.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Psychotherapy & Social Science Review - Volume 11, page 4:",
"text": "No amount of psychoanalytic interpretation will have an effect if the therapeutic atmosphere is heavy , unalive, and boring .",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1983, John S. McCann, The Critical Reputation of Tennessee Williams, page 171:",
"text": "SLS seems to me not so much moral or immoral as simply a caricature; not admirable or deplorable, but absurd . . . . I found ( SLS ) hollow , unproductive , unalive , and above all stagy: not cinematic.",
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{
"ref": "2008, The Middle Way - Volumes 83-84, page 145:",
"text": "Our perception labels it as negative, just like our minds have been trained to accept only the clinical and unreal, the sterile and unalive, the prepackaged and filtered.",
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"ref": "1953, Sydney J. Harris, Strictly Personal, page 213:",
"text": "Rather be unhappy , and know it , than unalive, and not know it .",
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"ref": "1974, William R.Parker, Elaine St. Johus, Prayer Can Change Your Life, page 229:",
"text": "But now these symptoms which seemed to be bad and inimical , namely , this anxiety or guilt , prove themselves to be helpful and friendly, for they intrude themselves in order to bring healing by awakening this living yet unalive person.",
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"ref": "1975, Clark E. Moustakas, The Touch of Loneliness, page 39:",
"text": "If I feel placid or unalive must I feign excitement?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Michael D. Marcaccio, The Hapgoods Three Earnest Brothers, page 157:",
"text": "She made him look impetuous, excitable; he made her seem cold, unalive.",
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{
"ref": "1978, Alvin R. Mahrer, Experiencing: A Humanistic Theory of Psychology and Psychiatry, page 268:",
"text": "Fromm ( 1968 ) refers to this as the spectre of a mechanized society in which human beings are slowly being transformed into the mechanical thing which is the society - passive, automatic, unfeeling, run by computers, unalive, a product of conditioning.",
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"ref": "1966, Lois G. Gordon, Dialectic of the Beast and Monk, page 287:",
"text": "In one rather poignant moment she reveals this predicament with her husband : if she has emasculated him throughout the years , Willie , in his own passive way , has made her feel similarly unalive: Was I ever lovable ?",
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"ref": "2008, William Saroyan, William E. Justice, He Flies Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease, page 28:",
"text": "And for the past six months I have been separated from my writing, and I have been nothing, or I have been walking about unalive, some indistinct shadow in a nightmare of the universe.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2009, Carole Jones, Disappearing Men:, page 34:",
"text": "It is directly related, however, to being and non-being, a relation which suggests that being is defined by work if without a job one becomes \"unalive\".",
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"Lacking a fulfilling life; meaningless."
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"ref": "1930, Sir Mirza M. Ismail, Speeches - Volume 1, page 128:",
"text": "We are not unalive to the gravity of the problem of unemployment but we want co-operation here also, and we believe that , if we receive it , hundreds of young men who are now swelling the ranks of the unemployed , may achieve self-support in a happy, healthy and independent life.",
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"ref": "1933, Thomas Earle Welby, Second Impressions, page 74:",
"text": "The realism was largely mere recoil , by a man unalive to how beer and a ribald joke can carry the common man through bibulation ; but the hunger of the mind was a very positive thing, active in him and in many of his most remarkable characters.",
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{
"ref": "1950, Roy Chapman Andrews, My Favorite Stories of the Great Outdoors, page 314:",
"text": "Next day Tappan was not unalive to the changing character of the forest.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1977, Stuart Holroyd, Psi and the Consciousness Explosion, page 204:",
"text": "If ... the universe is unalive and indifferent , I will hope and work for something in myself quite different from what I will seek if the universe is laden with mind and life .",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1981, Stanley Keleman, Your Body Speaks Its Mind, page 29:",
"text": "How unalive we are, how unincarnated we are, reveals itself as unresponsiveness, ungracefulness, and restricted bodily mobility.",
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"(often with \"to\") Lacking consciousness; unresponsive, indifferent or oblivious."
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"ref": "1967, Helen Bevington, “Speaking of Books: Hellgazers and Rejoicers”, in The New York Times Book Review, volume 72, page 2:",
"text": "Most people are the unalives the notalives, the impersons, existing in an unworld of unlove and unbeing.",
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"ref": "2009, Jirí Flajšar, Zénó Vernyik, Words into Pictures: E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders, page 83:",
"text": "The very latest of Mr. Cummings's new poems are fixed in rigid attitudes of youth, which now seem to show signs of weariness, caused by the strain of a prolonged defiance against \"the sweet&aged people who rule this world,\" against the “unhearts,” the “unminds,” the “unalives.\"",
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"text": "Jeffrey Epstein is thought to have unalived himself, but Tucker Carlson calls this position into question.",
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"ref": "2017, Nicolas Michaud, Jacob Thomas May, Deadpool and Philosophy: My Common Sense Is Tingling:",
"text": "He “unalives” bad guys, sometimes for free, and this gives him a sense of purpose, even in an absurd world.",
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"ref": "2017, Margaret Newmeli, Another Dimension: The Ultimate Amalgam, page 160:",
"text": "Or does anyone know how to stop Broly without unaliving him?",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "2019, Aman K Singh, The Deserters: The Curse Bearer, page 237:",
"text": "\"We are going to 'unalive' them once again,” said Yukt laughing and the men looked at him like he was crazy.",
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"ref": "2021 May 18, Katie Storey, “Woman mortified after her old school teacher follows her on OnlyFans… and says she was always ‘something special’”, in The Sun:",
"text": "Sharing just how awkward she felt, Rara, who also has her own YouTube channel, joked she wanted to \"unalive\" herself.",
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"ref": "2020, F. H. Fischer, The Second Daughter's Darkness, page 90:",
"text": "Carl sighs, and ironically wishes to unalive out loud.",
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