Sentence examples for glimpse of death from inspiring English sources
The first glimpse of death and nothingness.
Mr. Houser, whose kidney problems gave him a frightening glimpse of death, said he hoped the project would give him a kind of immortality.
In his watercolours, composed with "wet-in-wet washes", a liquid squiggle can suggest a fishing boat, a rapid brush-stroke is able to conjure up a mountain, and a splash of white looks spectral, literally appalling: is the colourless horseman galloping on a stormy beach a glimpse of death, the pale rider?
"It was during those years--I guess I was about 9 at the time--that I remember getting my first glimpse of death.
We're all looking around dark corners for at least a glimpse of death, yet we usually don't want anyone to discover us doing this.
In John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Owen catches a glimpse of Death early in his young life and uses it as a window to escape his stunted life and become a hero.
With the debate over capital punishment in California poised to intensify again in 2016, state corrections officials provided a rare glimpse Tuesday of death row, where hundreds of condemned men await the outcome of legal and political fights that have blocked any executions for nearly a decade.
To suggest Shakespearean England for the film's opening scene at the Globe Theater and the glimpse of Falstaff's death, Walton drew on pieces from the "Fitzwilliam Virginal Book" (specifically Giles Farnaby's "Rosa Solis" and the anonymous "Watkins Ale").
I put it down with tears on my face and the absolute certainty that if, at 12, 13 or 14, a novel like this had provided my first glimpse of sex and death, I'd have grown up saner and wiser for it.
As I continued along the ridge, I got my first glimpse into the depths of Death Valley.
It's music that gives you a glimpse of the heat-death of the universe – and the necessity to keep going, to keep composing, to keep living in the face of that nihilistic fate that awaits us, even if it all, in the end, amounts to nothing.
