He spent the first half of his life in search of a stable identity.
He spent the first half of his life as a near-invalid, ill and frail and certain he was doomed to an early death, just like Shelley.
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Whereas the Candide-like picaresque of the first half persuasively evokes life under brutal totalitarianism, the identity-switching and intrigue of the second part seem to originate in little more than the need to spin a yarn.
Cristiano Ronaldo, who was quiet in the first half, came to life, as did the other three - Tevez sparked something.
Weighing in at almost 1, 000 pages, but taking its subject only up to the age of 36, the book shows by its sheer length how much incident, complexity and controversy are crowded into the first half of his long life.
The first time I played Halo felt a little bit like the first time I played DOOM or the first time I played Half-Life 2.
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For at least the first half of Israel's life the Zionist project building a state, defending the borders, gathering in the exiles created a strong feeling of national cohesion.
Ashton, so quiet in the first half, soon sprang into life four minutes into the second half when he finished a superb move crafted by the ingenuity and fleet-footed skills of Foden.
Portal is a game from 2007, its cutting edge somewhat dulled technologically, and the original Half-Life was first published in 1998.
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Chances were few and far between in a drab first half but the game came to life when Saints striker Michael Higdon hit the crossbar after the break.
Norwich only came to life in first-half injury-time when Paul McVeigh fired in a shot which Marlon Beresford saved with his feet and Gary Holt shot over from the rebound.
The north Belfast derby came to life after a dull first half with all three goals coming in the last seven minutes.
The first half petered out but the game burst to life again shortly after the break as Hibs were awarded their penalty.
Defences were always likely to be stretched in the energy-sapping conditions and the Leeds tryline lived a charmed life for much of the first half.
He spends the first half of the book justifying his redefinition of life in a lengthy narrative that combines personal memoir, Zen-like musings and scientific explanations.
To reiterate, most Valve games are first-person perspective games, from Half-Life to Portal, which made us wonder why none of those games are getting the port treatment.
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If they launch the system alongside Half-Life 3 and some other first-party gems, this could make huge waves.
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After a first half lacking in entertainment, the game sparked into life when Bolton's Davies was sent off after collecting a second yellow card.
Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.
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For instance, the American Association of Pediatrics recently changed its recommendations for the treatment of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a potentially deadly respiratory infection that afflicts half of all infants during their first year of life and almost all by the end of year two.
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Even a game like Half-Life 2, which was probably my first big PC shooter crush, felt pretty repetitive when it came to the badguys.
According to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, for the first time more than half (53%) of Americans age 65 or older now use the Internet or e-mail.
For example, in its fourth amended registration statement, filed with the SEC in October of 2011, Zynga noted that during the first half of last year it estimated the blended average paying player life for a game as 15 months, down from 19 months a year earlier.
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Even Half-Life would feel funny as a film, with the first-person perspective ripped away and, one suspects, a chatty Gordon Freeman.
Half of patients with the condition do not survive past the first week of life, according to the National Institutes of Health.
With the rain lashing down and a swirling wind making life difficult on a bumpy pitch, there were few first-half thrills for the 3, 640 hardy souls in attendance.
As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.
After all, the first verb Charlie conjugated in his life, when he was just three and a half was the verb to Google!
The contest really came to life in the closing stages of the opening half, with Cech first denying Saha and then shortly afterwards saving the Frenchman's penalty after Carvalho's foul on the impressive Landon Donovan.
One of the first things that Physics students learn when they study radioactivity is the idea of the half-life.
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