Sentence examples for in epitaph from inspiring English sources

Mr. Moore's strengths are all at work in "Epitaph," here in full: "He stole forsythia./He lived for love./He never got caught".

In "Epitaph for a Rule That Just Won't Die" (Economic View, July 30), Louis Uchitelle examined the problems in estimating the Nairu, or nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment, traditionally defined as the lowest level of unemployment compatible with price stability.

Sterne's digressions — also used by the many he influenced, among them Denis Diderot in "Jacques the Fatalist and His Master" and the Brazilian Machado de Assis in "Epitaph for a Small Winner" — were one way.

We must carefully distinguish between the poetry in which Millay's personal romance-angst theme dominates and that in which a larger, cosmic drama is portrayed (in "Epitaph," the self-extinction of the human species).

External limits help the poet avoid self-indulgence; those limits can come from brevity, or (as in "Auto-Lullaby") from stanzaic form or from self-deprecating humor: "I'm not the brightest / knife in the drawer, but / I know a couple things," Wright says in "Epitaph," a poem otherwise given to bleak depths and fears.

Topher may not ever be a truly sympathetic character, but this mixture of suddenly starting to tell right from wrong and his growing sense that he's losing control of his creations brings us closer to understanding how he might move from season one's sarcastic cold-hearted science wonk to being the closed-off headcase we saw in epitaph one.

The vandals destroyed gravestones inscribed with Koranic verses; they frown on Ahmadis' using Muslim prayers in epitaphs.

Harlow Elliot Woodword, in Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Dorchester, said that Atherton had believed in witches and "felt it to be a duty which he owed to God and to his Country to mete out to the poor creatures, against whom accusations were brought, the punishment, which, in his opinion, they so richly merited".

His confidence and charisma were immortalized in a series of striking self-portraits and captured in his epitaph: "Whatever was mortal in Albrecht Dürer lies beneath this mound" (3 ).

Walker was forced to resign in disgrace in 1932: "a shallow, fun-loving politician in the most trying times in the city's modern history," in the epitaph of Thomas Kessner, the biographer of Fiorello LaGuardia.

Finally he has, and I am even quoted in it (perhaps that will be in my epitaph, "oft quoted non-author").