Living a compulsively orderly existence in an austere apartment that resembles a library, he spends hours fantasizing his own suicide, by hanging, gunshot and smothering.

It was an orderly, well-structured existence, if somewhat outside the patterns of ordinary folk.

She owns a cafeteria and maintains an orderly, joyless existence.

She'd come to Omicron two years ago with a good pension, looking forward to a quiet, orderly existence owning her own sporting supply shop.

Our orderly existence permitted me to ask my question.

But it was just that life on the frontier was so very different from the orderly existence of Lowell.

But Gallagher is soon wrenched out of his orderly existence into a dirty world of killing and corruption.

But that orderly existence has increasingly given way to what she refers to as "the necessary life of protest" against the racial policies of her country's government.

Awash with emotions foreign to her systematic, orderly existence, Mica couldn't reply.