Like Janacek's other mature operas, it is intimately concerned with life and death; here the question is, What constitutes meaningful life?

Existing in the world, art represents one of the realities that constitute life.

He had not felt equal to the rounds of social activity which constituted her life, nor had he found her generously sympathetic.

Questions of where technology may be heading, what constitutes life and death, and the morality of creating self-aware machines to serve, or sometimes replace, humans, are raised.

Functions constitute life.

Each makes a physically reductive, idea-rich art from scraps of a consumer culture that for most of us constitutes everyday life.

There is no hierarchy among these different "planes" or "levels" of rationality that constitute psychic life.

In Qu'Appelle's early days, churches as well as the school constituted a major focus of community social as well as religious life through the year.

Actions which constitute ordinary daily life are not considered assault or battery, for example, jostling on a crowded train.

It should therefore be obvious that the various physical and chemical components of our bodies do not constitute life.