Sentence examples for act of mourning from inspiring English sources

This was an act of mourning for the imperial past.

Why mimic that image for an act of mourning at a place of defeat?

Pleasant and happy-go-lucky, Engel's England is also inescapably an act of mourning.

This poster is as much an act of mourning as a public appeal.

I guess you'd call it popular sociology, but I think of it more as an act of mourning.

It was an emotional ceremony that offered the chance to participate in a collective act of mourning.

Photograph: Andy Hall The death of criticism, frequently announced in recent months, has prompted numerous autopsies but few acts of mourning.

On the streets of New York, acts of mourning were generating nationalist sentiment, fuelling political ambition, and marking absence.

The poems often seem to be acts of mourning, but under such strong, imaginative pressure that absence becomes presence.

And yet Warhol has a way of shocking you into a reaction: a detail, a shadow stirs your feelings and his paintings turn into acts of mourning.

And so it is that this immensely gifted Chinese writer performs his poetic acts of mourning for the entertainment of audiences in Berlin and New York — an exotic "dissident" abroad, his voice to be heard everywhere except where it is most needed.