Sentence examples for ideas about death from inspiring English sources
The following discussion therefore focuses on how certain cultural ideas about death compare or contrast with the modern concept.
Even Christianity, one of the world's most successful purveyors of ideas about death, seldom attended to the specifics of why we die.
You wouldn't know it from this show, but Ms. Smith's ideas about death and ritual go well beyond the upper-class drawing room.
Inspired by the work of such painters as René Magritte and Balthus, Michals began to address literary and philosophical ideas about death, gender, and sexuality.
Their own unsentimental, shrugging ideas about death are at odds with Aboriginal customs as well, and the mutual suspicion and incomprehension between the two populations, as well as the clumsy efforts toward tolerance and respect, are addressed acutely and with sensitivity.
Or to cite a "non-linguistic" example, Herder argues that Egyptian sculpture (unlike Greek) had the purpose as a genre of expressing certain ideas about death and eternity — so that the full interpretation of a piece of Egyptian sculpture must include this aspect of its meaning deriving from the general genre.
Maybe Granana is slightly off target when it comes to the Food Pyramid, but she has the right idea about death.
There's a similar idea about death and movies swirling in "The Canyons," most obviously with the figure of Christian, an avatar of both entitlement and entertainment who's solely interested in making pornographic home videos, not actual movies.
Language as a catalyst for ideas about life, death, and the afterlife underpins two other major works here, "Rise" (2005-2006) and "Shimmer" (2005-2006).
To the contrary, said Jamie Orenstein, a former federal prosecutor, "one of the basic ideas about the death penalty is that it's supposed to reflect the moral judgment of the community".
You'd want a person, in short, who could be a vessel for messages about the future, an unassuming but comforting container for radical ideas about life, death, and what it is to be human.
