When the question of significance is deferred, all moments are rendered equally significant.
Although the primary diagnosis may not be disputed, a social context that emphasizes mere and unlikely survival over palliative care is likely to provide maximal technological support and defer the moment of death.
For Radcliffe, that is a ghost deferred for the moment.
In this case, interviews will be deferred for another moment.
Eileen's long-deferred moment of truth arrives when her priest, Monsignor Murphy Richard Chamberlainn, at his most reptilian, and affecting a brogue), tells her she is a leading candidate for the parish's Catholic Woman of the Year.
If the end came, and we had to struggle on into a nightmarish world, fearing the living and envying the dead, then suicide would be the only thing on anyone's mind, an option assessed and deferred hour by hour, moment by moment.
We had fared so long on the thin diet of hope deferred that for a moment or two our hearts wavered and doubted.
Commitments often follow a period of deliberation, during which items are considered but final acceptance or rejection is deferred to a later moment (Shafir and Tversky, 1992; Shafir, 1993).
Its cathartic last pages, with their profound reflections on death and oblivion, are a powerful reminder of how the recalling of a person is a way of bringing back to life, and of deferring for a "moment more" the void that awaits us all.
In its cathartic last pages, the book acquires a universal resonance as the author reflects on how the recalling of a person is a way of bringing back to life, and of a deferring for "a moment more" the void that awaits us all.
The story of Stanton and Lincoln — the reason that, at the very last moment, the assemblage deferred to Stanton to say the final words — is well retold by Doris Kearns Goodwin and, in particular detail, by William Lee Miller.
