Sentence examples for expression of mourning from inspiring English sources

It seems likely that the cross was an expression of mourning.

(The microblogging platform Weibo even removed the candle icon, a common expression of mourning, from its selection of emoticons).

Four years ago, the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs triggered a global expression of mourning of a depth and duration that Oscar-winning documentary-maker Alex Gibney found hard to explain.

Thousands of students poured out of classrooms in the US on Wednesday in an unprecedented expression of mourning and a demand for action to stem the country's epidemic of gun violence.

In his famous chronicle, "The Waning of the Middle Ages," Johan Huizinga called the diminutive band of brothers "the most profound expression of mourning known in art, a funeral march in stone".

Ambassador Prudence Bushnell, who had been giving a speech at the Cooperative Bank building down the street from the embassy at the moment of the explosion and was slightly wounded, toured the ruins of the mission today, walking stiffly, with a slight limp, a split lip and an expression of mourning.

Expressions of disorientation not dissimilar from expressions of mourning continued for the rest of the show.

Photographers shot pictures of customers holding vine-ripened tomatoes or boxes of biscotti, their faces fixed in expressions of mourning.

Holocaust Day falls during the Hebrew month of Nissan, a month of celebration, when strictly Orthodox Jews are barred from public expressions of mourning.

A sort of synchronicity develops between the girl in Paris and the boy in Taipei, but although it introduces some otherwise absent action, this is less interesting than the L'Avventura -like expressions of mourning and boredom.

With expressions of mourning and calls for peace and stability, Venezuelans took to the streets and social networks on Tuesday after the announcement of the death of President Hugo Chávez.