Assertion: diarist's diary | /r/HasProperty | way
Facets:
value: in an age
type: TEMPORAL
value: often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Adam Phillips, psychotherapist and writer, suggests that a diary is a way of being a witness to one's own life, something that is harder than you might suppose.
text: A diary is often a way of trying to cheat mortality: self-memorialising, a garrulous epitaph.
text: In an age when life in this world and salvation in the next were both uncertain, diaries were a way of making sense of and ordering existence.