Sentence examples for forgotten dead from inspiring English sources

As it turned out, it was the modern-day counterparts of the forgotten dead who first spoke up for them.

The walls are covered with faded photos of the Grateful Dead -- performing at outdoor concerts, posing with Walton -- and posters announcing some long forgotten Dead concert.

Frank Bender, a forensic sculptor whose work — haunting, three-dimensional faces in clay — helped identify the forgotten dead and apprehend the fugitive living, died on Thursday at his home in Philadelphia.

These are the forgotten dead.

While analyzing the use of "death" in 18th-century poetry, David Morris, in 2001, declared the poem as "a monument in this ongoing transformation of death" and that "the poem in its quiet portraits of rural life succeeds in drawing the forgotten dead back into the community of the living".

He insists that he's forgotten his dead former girlfriend's name, although he must have remembered it enough to have identified her in the newspaper story.

"In a few weeks we will forget our dead, perhaps because we'll be crying over other dead as well, victims of tragedies which we know will occur," Sérgio Abranches, a sociologist in Rio de Janeiro, said in a scathing essay about the nightclub fire and the sense of fatalism with which Brazilians often react to such preventable disasters.

The idea of forgetting the dead, he said, even 200-year-old ancestors, is deeply painful.

Who can forget the dead child, Alan Kurdi, found on the beach?

"We wanted the site," he said, "to be an inspiring reminder to the world that this city will never forget our dead and never stop living".

You could see her thinking, working, to put this difficult ballet over, and — forget the dead children — her effort made the show inexpressibly poignant.