Sentence examples for mortality her from inspiring English sources

He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family.

She recorded John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery," an old woman's story, in 1974, and on Thursday that song fit easily alongside more recent reflections on mortality: her own "Nick of Time" and David Gray's "Silver Lining".

The most wrenching performance is of "O Death," a folk song from the twenties made famous by the Coen brothers' film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" For nearly eleven minutes, it's unclear which side of mortality her voice represents, as it twists into a glassy croak before rising into a menacing howl.

In the opening moments of Willy Decker's striking modern production of Verdi's "Traviata," the dying courtesan Violetta moves slowly across the stage toward a huge ticking clock that symbolizes her mortality, her bright red dress a solitary splash of color against a barren white wall.

In "World According to Xavier" she explores the "shapes of motherhood and mortality". Her son Xavier is present in both the video and photographic pieces, strapped to his mother in "Hues from Brown to Pink" and wrapped in striped fabric and a plaster cast in Fernandez's "Undulating Form" videos.

The historic 1952 pollution episode in London, when a rapid increase in smog led to dramatic increases in daily mortality, including infant mortality (Her Majesty's Public Health Service 1954), stimulated early studies into the effect of air pollution on population health.

She sees herself, her mortality, in her.

Solnit's personal "story of sorts" brings together episodes from a difficult year in her life, one that included a breakup, a brush with her own mortality, and her mother's descent into Alzheimer's.

A cavalcade of deaths (her father, her mother, her sister, Frank O'Hara) and her awareness of her own mortality intermittently roiled her paintings, including her so-called "Black" paintings (1964), centered with dark storm clouds of tightly clenched strokes.

As her shame and disgust for her body, for her mortality, and for her very humanity grows, she imagines herself transforming into a swan: feathers, webbed toes, and talons.

Parks said the deaths of her parents and brother at young ages, as well as her own illness, have led her to explore mortality in her work.