Sentence examples for description of death from inspiring English sources
If ever there was an ecstatic description of death, there it is.
Each enquiry about friends or family elicits a description of death.
The drag ball is a glorious set-piece of comedy and pathos; but Henry James's description of death as "the distinguished thing" recurs throughout the book.
Writers want to talk about creation, and censorship is anti-creation, negative energy, uncreation, the bringing into being of non-being, or, to use Tom Stoppard's description of death, "the absence of presence".
His book "How We Die" (1994) is a physiological description of death in several of its unattractive possibilities: through heart failure, old age, Alzheimer's, cancer, AIDS, murder and more.
Apprehending this adds another layer to the terrifyingly powerful climax of Ivan Ilyich, in which Ivan's rapture ("There was no more fear because there was no more death") does not convince, but jars against his earlier, terrible description of death as "that black sack into which an invisible, invincible force was pushing him".
About 25 years after it was first published, Bewick's classic made its appearance in another, Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", when the very young Jane finds solace, happiness even, in Bewick's description of "death-white regions".
You don't get me at all.' " Reviewing a Slayer concert in The New York Times in 1988, Jon Pareles wrote: "The band revels in taboo topics, but its deadpan descriptions of death in every imaginable form don't sound like propaganda for viciousness.
Lewis based his descriptions of death and injury on authentic accounts from survivors of the atomic bomb the US dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
This explicit and unflinching description — both of death and of the excruciating confessional honesty concerning the narrator's own feelings — is why writers will forever have reason to praise John Updike's contribution to our literary arts.
Mickiewicz immortalized her in his poem, Śmierć pułkownika (Death of a Colonel), although the description of her death is a pure poetical fiction and was only loosely based on her real life.
