Sentence examples for memorial power from inspiring English sources
The book's memorial power is so strong that, near the end, when Rajkumar, an old man, reflects, "Ah, Burma — now Burma was a golden land," the reader catches himself nodding in recognition of what was lost.
Even so, final images of life before death have an eerily memorial power for iconic public figures with whom we interact primarily through images; the CCTV pictures of Diana in the revolving door of the Paris Ritz have a similar impact.
Combining the memorial powers of the Seder plate with the canary-in-the-coal-mine nature of the oyster seemed a good way to keep the disaster — and BP's promises to clean up its mess — in mind.
He spoke a few sentences about the memorials' symbolic power.
Such memorials celebrate power, and take pride in outliving the passers-by who stare up at them.
"Surely having a black sculptor of a black civil rights icon – working on ground once toiled by black slaves, on the national Mall, designed and surveyed with the help of a black mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker – would have added to the King memorial's symbolic power".
But this is not what gives this memorial its real power.
"I had finished ninth grade at Power Memorial and the coach, Jack Donohue, had a basketball camp upstate," Abdul-Jabbar said.
On Thursday, several workers stood on scaffolding erected around the memorial and used power tools on its surface.
His words, a memorial to the power of poetry itself, and carried on nothing more durable than papyrus, vellum and paper, have proved resilient over two millennia.
The ground level of this memorial takes its power from sight lines that must not be interrupted with artifacts or statues.
