(1) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(2) Even in this politician's afterlife, his religious beliefs had a vagueness about them.
(3) The early spiritualists believed they were shedding light on the transition of the human spirit from the physical body to the afterlife.
(4) He is grateful for people's prayers but, he writes, when asked how he can face death without the certainty of an afterlife "I can only say it hasn't been a problem."
(5) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
(6) Nominees: Paul Abbott - Shameless 2, Company Pictures for Channel 4 Jed Mercurio - Bodies (Series 2), Hat Trick Productions for BBC3 Actor - Female Lesley Sharp - Afterlife, Clerkenwell Films for ITV "The jury described the winning actress as one of the most versatile in the business, who adds layers and depth to each and every one of her roles."
(7) "After all, there's nothing to complain about in the afterlife."
(8) And even if they try, Carter-Ruck can probably issue a gagging order that follows them into the afterlife and kicks their larynx off its hinges.
(9) He speaks to the need for a rational faith or belief in values like dignity, or even an afterlife … Then you have Carrot and Vimes, or the relativist versus the moral absolutist.
(10) Item analysis revealed additional information on meanings of death: Older respondents indicated a concern over the existence of an afterlife and over loss of personal control; women expressed more fear of pain and bodily decomposition.
(11) Meanwhile their dizzyingly romantic A Matter of Life and Death was a glorious affirmation of the special relationship between the UK and US, embodied by David Niven and Kim Hunter's love which shrugs off the bounds of the afterlife.
(12) That three-word phrase, expressing a sincere hope that the dead will find peace in the afterlife, is a fitting inscription for a tombstone, and now a very popular hashtag on social media.
(13) I have never believed in an afterlife, but Josie and my youngest daughter are both practising Christians and I've been tilting towards their side of things recently.
(14) I think the afterlife is a fairytale for people who are afraid of the dark."
(15) Eventually, in a glorious climax, I guess I'll install and run the "afterlife" routine, encountering the inevitable fatal system error halfway through.
(16) "The idea of an afterlife where you can be reunited with loved ones can be immensely consoling - though not to me.
(17) Afterlife items on the death anxiety scale did correlate significantly with the intrinsic religious motivation score.
(18) Asked about his view of God and an afterlife, he added: "It's theoretically possible to copy a brain on to a computer to provide a form of life after death.
(19) "They are a bit scared but I tell them we will meet in the afterlife.
(20) One obvious example is the fact that people who believe in an afterlife, despite the lack of any convincing scientific evidence, will be less afraid of dying.
Netherworld
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Example Sentences:
(1) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
(2) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
(3) When called up by Jurgen Klinsmann, "Jack Mac" couldn't wrestle playing time away from Chris Wondolowski, a player who embodies that netherworld between Major League Soccer significance and national team relevance.
(4) Glazer shoots everything - from the rainy streets of Glasgow to the barren netherworld of the alien lair - with a tear-jerking sensitivity to beauty.
(5) Many exist in an illegal netherworld in the sprawling city itself.
(6) On the downside, the film superseded L Frank Baum's book, which followed Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories for boys into the netherworld of semi-obsolete children's fare.
(7) The style and substance will be familiar to readers of pop psychology bestsellers such as Malcolm Gladwell's Blink or Jonah Lehrer's Proust Was a Neuroscientist: for Brooks the unconscious isn't a seething Freudian netherworld of sexual urges, but where we make the key decisions of our lives – whom to date and marry, how to vote.
(8) Sundar has a talent for creating products that are technically excellent yet easy to use – and he loves a big bet,” Page wrote when he promoted Pichai and moved Andy Rubin, the company’s former head of Android, into the robot-and-drone-filled netherworld that now comprises Alphabet’s non-Google divisions.
(9) I was cleared of my "crime" – but not before I'd lost two years of my life in a netherworld of prisons, police, tags and harassment.
(10) Superheroes operate in a netherworld just this side of fascism.