Staged public gestures of remembrance or grief are "symbolic".
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.
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.
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.
We had intended the reading as a gesture of remembrance, but when it was over and we looked around at one another — swelled by the emotions it had raised, across lines of party and race — it seemed clear we had just started an annual event.
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.
Of recent public gestures on Anglo-Irish reconciliation, the pilgrimage of remembrance by the Prince of Wales to Mullaghmore was undoubtedly the most personal.
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.
Poppycock In common with many football followers, I had lost track of James McClean's career before he exercised his right to make an annual gesture, and refuse to wear a poppy on his shirt as part of Remembrance Day commemorations.
