Sentence examples for description of dying from inspiring English sources

He listened to the music and thought of what the radiologist had said, that once it's over, in her Russian accent, you forget instantly the whole experience, so how bad can it be, she'd said, and he thought this sounded like a description of dying.

Civil defence warnings on how to survive for weeks under the stairs, imagining what you'd do when the four-minute siren wailed, how long strontium-90 stays in the air and soil, poring over graphic descriptions of dying from nuclear fallout, as in Nevil Shute's On the Beach – all these were horribly real.

"Mailer describes the Earth as a kind of bleeding entity, that runs together simultaneously with this description of a dying body.

Ali's style may seem ornate to some readers, but his description of the dying world of Delhi is gloriously atmospheric, and the rhythms of the language pull you in.

Keats's survival after death is the theme of a particularly fine essay that takes the poet's own description of his dying days as a "posthumous existence" as its starting point.

And we find many other close doubles between Confession and The Death of Ivan Ilyich from the description of a dying man's attitude toward his own at first insignificant symptoms of illness to the image of the return to childhood that is so powerful in both works.

And we find many other close doubles between Confession and The Death of Ivan Ilyich — from the description of a dying man's attitude toward his own at first insignificant symptoms of illness to the image of the return to childhood that is so powerful in both works.

A large number of non-specific congruencies were found, mostly in the context of a qualitative description of the dying process [for n = 42] (want a peaceful death, dignified death, good death; don't want to suffer a wretched, miserable death), refusal of treatment (no machines, no invasive treatment) or concepts of quality of life (don't want to suffer, to vegetate).

Unsparing in its description of the process of dying and the world that catapults past, "The Long Goodbye" hardly suggests that people — physicians, friends and family, the narrator herself — know how to behave in the face of death.

Descriptions of the risk of dying from a gastrointestinal bleed or perforation vary significantly.

We respond more to a child drowning right before our eyes than to the plight of a child we don't see and whom we know (only by description) to be in danger of dying of starvation in some distant country; and, similarly, we respond more to the "clear and present" danger faced by miners we hear are trapped underground than to dangers we know will arise in some indefinite future.