Sentence examples for honourable death from inspiring English sources
OK, then, that's one honourable death from the Gerhardt spin doctors for Rye.
"It looks", he said, "as if we are going to lose the war, and if it comes to the point of the Honourable Death of the One Hundred Million [mass suicide], we all have to die anyway.
This official Roman version of a predatory, immoral Cleopatra passed into Western culture, where it was retold and reinterpreted as the years passed, until it evolved into a story of a wicked life made good by an honourable death.
47 Ronin Now streaming "If ever a film was in need of an honourable death and a respectful burial it would be 47 Ronin, a cursed samurai epic that features a somnambulistic performance from a shell-shocked Keanu Reeves".
Speaking after Mohammed Emwazi, a 26-year-old computer studies graduate, was identified on Thursday as the militant known as "Jihadi John", Dragana Haines said the last thing she wanted was for him to be given what he would consider an honourable death by being killed in action.
That's the only moral satisfaction for the families of all the people he murdered because if he gets killed in action that will be an honourable death for him and that is the last thing I would want for someone like him".
The most honourable means of death was decapitation, as shown in the magnificent Allegory of Good Government, painted in 1339 by the Sienese artist Ambrogio Lorenzetti – wherein Justice sits with a sword in her right hand and a severed head on her knee.
Drummond forms a grudging respect for Peterson, and offers an honourable duel to the death at the end of the Third Round, instead of the usual summary justice that normally befalls members of Peterson's gang.
The younger Pliny rationalized gladiator spectacles as good for the people, a way "to inspire them to face honourable wounds and despise death, by exhibiting love of glory and desire for victory even in the bodies of slaves and criminals".
He called his father-in-law's death: "humane and honourable" in comparison to the "expensive misery of death in America".
Woody Allen's honourable homage in Love and Death brought out its latent black comedy, though a batsqueak of this is present in Bergman.
