Sentence examples for gesture of remembrance from inspiring English sources
A gesture of remembrance, anxious or soothing — he wasn't sure.
This vivid, pungent, often blackly funny book is a mighty gesture of remembrance against the encroaching forces of silence.
Totemic grieving is often controversial and always subjective; one person's gesture of remembrance is another's mawkish trivialisation.
Obituaries were once just a few thoughtful lines in local newsprint, the final small gesture of remembrance for neighbors, friends and family.
The musicians are playing for Mauthausen survivors, their families and the public: "a declaration of humanity on a site of horror," says Clemens Hellsberg, the orchestra's president; a gesture of "remembrance, repentance and homage," in Sir Simon's words.
A new poem by Carol Ann Duffy, a sonnet in which the poet laureate mourns the "wound in Time" left by the first world war, will be read aloud on beaches on Armistice Day as part of a nationwide gesture of remembrance for next month's centenary.
On the streets of Berlin, the sight of Stolpersteine, the discreet little brass cobbles at the entrance to buildings, bearing the names of former residents killed by the Nazis, is among the most powerful gestures of remembrance and contrition.Reluctantly, Germany in Europe has become a bit like America in the world, the indispensable power.
The two-minute tribute, originally intended, like the Cenotaph – first built as a temporary wooden structure – as a gesture of mourning and remembrance just for November 1919 when the slaughter of the war was still agonisingly close, has been repeated every year, in ceremonies in towns and cities and at modest village war memorials, across Britain and overseas.
She rejected the idea that a minute's silence during the opening ceremony itself could be seen as a political gesture rather than an act of remembrance.
