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c'est la guerre
[ se la ger ]
- such is war.
Example Sentences
By the way, the trailer and one-sheet donât seem to be aware âLast Mercenaryâ is a comedy, but câest la guerre.
Things changed by 1918, when the paper shrank its list to 100: âOwing to the pre-emption by the war, there is much less time on the part of the general reader for ⊠the literary trifling of peacetime. The dilettante will have to bide his time: câest la guerre.â
Geary permitted herself only a wily grin, a look after having beaten the Perfect Soft-Boiled Egg that seemed to say, âCâest la guerre.â
They seem to accept it with stoical resignation, with most matter-of-fact courage, and their only answer to pity is a smile and the words, 'C'est la guerre.'
When I had shuddered at ghastly wounds, at death, at innumerable white crosses on a bloody battlefield, invariably, in dry, cynical, hopeless tones, the soldier would make one comment,â 'C'est la guerre; que voulez-vous?'
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