Sentence examples for deathbed scene from inspiring English sources

A lithograph deathbed scene published by Currier dramatizes Washington's last hours.

Only at the end of the story does the dying man give his son tapes that explain everything, followed by a never-ending deathbed scene that culminates with another grandiose homily about forgiveness.

It was such a telenovela deathbed scene, mother and son, both weeping about a psychic conversation routed hundreds of miles through the smog and traffic and over the mountains and across three deserts, from one dream to another, so that we wouldn't miss telling each other for the last time before she died.

He was particularly eager to share some recently acquired artifacts — photocopies of two October, 1892, articles from the Atlanta Constitution, one a deathbed scene starring Caroline Harrison, the wife of the twenty-third President, Benjamin Harrison, and the other a postmortem dispatch that, strictly speaking, wasn't an obituary.

Remember that deathbed scene in "Magnolia"?

There's a heart-rending deathbed scene.

Deathbed scenes in which characters deliver a speech and then flop backwards.

Taylor never misses a chance to poke fun at her love of interminable deathbed scenes and Victorian funeral processions.

Neither Dickens nor Thackeray was immune to the temptations of sentimentality as is instanced by their treatment of deathbed scenes.

Stalin IV, who had organized the event, still posed for deathbed scenes and expected to pose for busts in the future.

Some of this befits the gaudiness of the world that Ms. Abbott's book evokes, but some is just plain overwrought, particularly when it comes to deathbed scenes.