Sentence examples for extraordinary deaths from inspiring English sources

Montparnasse Cemetery is full of people (Beckett, Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir) who led extraordinary lives and, as often as not, died extraordinary deaths.

To me the fragrance is of a less violent mortality, of the less extraordinary deaths that we are likely to meet.

This case is not about an extraordinary death of an extraordinary person.

The Last Station (2009) starred Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer in a moving dramatisation of Tolstoy's extraordinary death at Astapovo railway station, written and directed from a novel by Jay Parini.

That was just one powerful image in an instalment full of them, from Costa's extraordinary death scene, to the final glimpse of Milan waking from his watery grave.

Part of the power of Alyosha, which describes a cheery peasant worker who remains sanguine whatever befalls him, derives from the extraordinary death scene with which it ends: "He spoke little.

This year, for example, Cheltenham begins with the first of three Britten operas, his last and extraordinary Death in Venice, followed by the Duke Quartet (five premieres) and the London Sinfonietta (a further three premieres).

And Mr. Myhre, 37, wanted the time he spent with people, whether family or friends, to be special, she said, describing him, simply, as a "happy" person -- "an ordinary person who died an extraordinary death".

Reaching one's 50th birthday is no longer a feat the way it was in, say, Montaigne's time, when the odds were against reaching 60 (Montaigne didn't) and "death of old age" was "a rare, singular and extraordinary death".

In text after text we find the idea of the divine man (theios aner) whose supernatural birth, ability to perform miracles, and extraordinary death separate him from the ordinary world of mortals.

When I wanted literature that dealt fearlessly — or morbidly — with death, I read the Russians: Tolstoy's extraordinary "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" and Turgenev's "First Love".