Sentence examples for dead subjects from inspiring English sources

But since the pardons have only symbolic value, maybe it hardly matters if they end up restricted to the gloriously talented dead, the fashionable dead, dead subjects of successful biopics and those dead recently enough to benefit from concerned descendants.

In a genial and energetic reflection on the biographer's craft, one of its most eminent practitioners notes, "Biographies are understood to write themselves, self-generated (like methane clouds) by their dead subjects".

His conversations with most of the names in his book (ranging from Harold Robbins and Chinua Achebe to Rebecca West and Angela Carter) provide delightful insights into his (now mostly dead) subjects, and fascinating snapshots from an age that has passed.

The dead subjects were excluded from analysis because post-mortem examinations were not performed.

Suddenly one of the seemingly dead subjects attack the scientists, assimilating them.

This 10 miRNAs panel could clearly distinguish alive and dead subjects over one-year period).

Action needs to be taken to ensure that history doesn't risk becoming a dead subject.

Should statistical analysts simply declare fourth-down decisions a dead subject and move on to more tractable problems?

The English major is vanishing from our colleges as the Latin prerequisite vanished before it, we're told, a dying choice bound to a dead subject.

History, to most Americans, is a dead subject of the dusty past, to be read about in books.

McGrath Morris on the other hand, was unable to meet his long dead subject, Joseph Pulitzer, while writing Pulitzer: A Life In Power, Print, Power.