Sentence examples for memorial function from inspiring English sources

Portraiture, too, often serves a memorial function.

There has always been a devotional cast to Ms. Rapson's art, a sense of work fulfilling some kind of mute memorial function.

But at the end of the day it's also a building for everyday life, and only the actual memorial has a pure memorial function as its reason for being.

Religious dress may also serve a memorial function, as in the case of the religious leaders (mullahs) of the Shīʿites (Muslim members of the party of ʿAlī), whose black gowns allude to the sufferings of Ḥusayn (ʿAlī's son by Fāṭimah, Muḥammad's only surviving daughter), who was martyred at Karbalāʾ, in modern Iraq, in ad 680.

"This really represents the shift of the photograph serving as a memorial function to a communication device," said Geoffrey Batchen, formerly of the City University of New York and now a professor of art history at Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand, who has written extensively on historical and contemporary photography.

Though the photos stand alone for purposes of exhibition to illustrate the arrival of Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz, it is only by adding names that we fulfill our memorial function to document the experiences of individual survivors and victims".

And yet the whole of the memorial functions, as it must, symbolically.

But Cosgrove suggested he was interested in doing more than "turning up at war memorial functions" – he would look to amplify the interests of the nation and the achievements of its people.

The evolution of their buildings such that both educational and memorial functions are integrated with the dense surroundings is scrutinized through chronological spatial analysis.

Although the clinical and experimental applications of this technology are still in their infancy, fMRI has been used to study the localization of specific linguistic functions, memorial functions, and executive and planning functions of frontal cortex.

* Give control of the memorializing functions of the plan to the winner of the memorial design competition.