Sentence examples for language of death from inspiring English sources

To his surprise, the language of death comes to him more readily in poetry than in prose, and it has a melody.

On the other hand, a proponent of disaggregating death might reply that (1) we could either reserve the language of death for the traditional standard or get used to the language of someone's being partially dead, and (2) we should appreciate that existence is sometimes partial as in the case of a half-assembled car.

"Death to Everyone" anticipates mortality with the realization that, in the language of Wallace Stevens, "death is the mother of beauty".

Linguists counter that yes, there is a natural process of language death; but the order of magnitude of the current die-off is what should create concern.

In some languages, the process of death can be captured temporally in the here and now and expressed in the present in present tense (He is dying; Se está muriendo in Spanish; Hij is stervende in Dutch).

In terms of logic, chroniclers of language death have yet to make a truly convincing case and it may well be that no such case exists.

Nevertheless, these sad final words emphasise a very important hidden benefit of swearing: from birthing mothers with brand-new babies to the last few moments of precious existence, swearing is, quite literally, the language of life and death.

The language of birth and death in the world of living things is precisely the language used in Greek metaphysics for coming to be and perishing.

While less focused on playing with the language of sleep and death, Macbeth also links the two concepts.

And while she agrees that English is a living language, "when we say ugly things, then that living language becomes an agent of death".

But as he demonstrates elsewhere, the requisite degrees of desire and madness are not available in the typical case of language death.