Sentence examples for dying confession from inspiring English sources

The Bush gang should be terrified by this movement, as the deceased's opinion carries rather more weight, curiously similar to a dying confession.

Hype fades faster than a printer's ink, and the hyped titles from Mr. Harry T. Hayward's trial are almost comical, a century later: "Being a complete version of the most horrible event in the criminal history of the world," and "Life, crimes, dying confession and execution of the celebrated Minneapolis criminal; other interesting chapters on the greatest psychological problem of the century".

Adrian regards these stories as a dying man's last confessions, although he also suspects that Elias is hiding a vital truth.

The dying person makes his last confession to a priest and receives absolution; then he is anointed with consecrated oil: the rite is known as "anointing of the sick" (formerly called extreme unction).

Anyone who's studied the original lyric about the confessions of a dying man and compared them with the tirelessly cheerful, sing-songy Anglophone version will know it's less a translation than it is an abomination ("I want them to dance when it's time to put me in the hole" becomes "We'll have joy, we'll have fun, we'll have seasons in the sun").

With her dying breath, Tarmini makes one last confession.

"I say Mass on a regular basis, would hear confessions in Troy, have worked in a hospital giving dying patients absolution.

The hairs turned up six months after investigators vacuumed the van and found nothing, and the condition of the hairs indicated they came from the victim long after she died, contrary to the confession's claim that the body was dumped soon after the murder.

He denied her oxygen and watched her die so that her confession would end with his ears.

He quoted Mr. Komisarjevsky's confession to the police, in which he claimed he had told Mr. Hayes, "No one is dying by my hand today".

Ulu Grosbard, a director whose affinity for naturalistic drama shaped critical successes like the original Broadway production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" and the film version of John Gregory Dunne's novel "True Confessions," has died in Manhattan.