Sentence examples for a dead parent from inspiring English sources
The synagogue was where generations of congregants gathered to pray — and schmooze — on the Sabbath, the place where they married their beloved, bar mitzvahed their young, bade farewell to a dead parent.
Jordan wrestles with the memory of a dead parent (as do several other protagonists, including Po in "Kung Fu Panda 2"), and he goes his own way — until eventually he connects with a corps of 3,600 Green Lanterns.
His own father died of starvation in 1959, and the "tombstone" of the title is in part a tribute to a dead parent who was never acknowledged as a victim of the state's policies.
I can't be the only parent who has tried to implant a child with a memory of a lost grandparent or, more tragically, of a dead parent or sibling.
There is little dignity in regularly going hungry to feed your children, telling crying two-year-olds to put coats on in bed or being in such a bind that you pawn a dead parent's wedding ring just to keep a roof over your head.
And, as the corpses of its dead parent industries rotted, Harrison's home city had become an unforgiving place.
Nevertheless, many parents work hard to keep the memory of the dead parent alive for their children.
It's years of suffering - a murderous dictator, dead parents, disease, abuse, and all sorts of deprivations that make them feel afraid, hopeless, lacking.
As "vivid crystalline notes exploded in the air with hurtful volume," his performance becomes "a tortuous spectacle" capped by a vision of her dead parents (who had sung arias to each other in Munich).
The night before her title bout for the women's lightweight boxing crown, Isabelle Alvarado Hernandezdella Hernandez), the beautiful, brave, loyal contender who has weathered two successive family tragedies, has a dream in which her dead parents appear in a silvery mist to offer words of divine encouragement.
