Sentence examples for mortality of memory from inspiring English sources

The novel ripples with unease at the mortality of memory.

Issues of mortality, of memory, and of pain are shared by all humans, not just those with similar beliefs.

In these poems the stanza is used to give stately, meditative structure to some of the most profound poetry of memory, mortality and art you will ever read.

In Sharr White's quiet ensemble piece "The Other Place" (at the Lucille Lortel), Metcalf gets to take on the duelling ideas of mortality and memory.

In "San," for cello and tape, the inventive composer Du Yun evoked the sounds of a qin (pronounced chin; an ancient Chinese zither) with broad glissandos and bone-dry plucks, while also contemplating notions of distance, mortality and memory through grainy, gritty outbursts of noise and keening echoes.

The surface appearance might be slight, is certainly subtle and delicate, yet the themes go deep: the nature of memory, loss, mortality, love.

His book is not simply an examination of the effects of his relatively rare and bleakly ironic illness but also a broader meditation on mortality and the resourceful defences of memory.

But Nabokov is also better at noir than Raymond Chandler, and wrote about the giddiness of despair, the revelations of art, the twinning of mortality and immortality, the melancholy of memory, the fractures in the self, and the mysteries of happiness, kindness, humour, love.

"So you're running 'round the world, with your head above the ground," the San Franciscan sings on ghostly opener Wrong Hand, her gentle finger-picking embellished by deft brushstrokes of electric guitar from sideman Cyrus Gengras across a song that drifts through ethereal themes of memory and mortality.

For her, the tradition of hunting -- and the rugged northern landscape that serves as its backdrop -- represents themes of memory and mortality, ones she's managed to weave in and out of her work for some time.

Indeed the proddings of mortality, of time and loss, memory and desire, spurred each of them on: between 1829 and his death in 1851 Turner produced 240 paintings; from 1897 to 1926 Monet made 482; and in the last 12 years of his life Twombly painted more than 70 (compared with 58 in the previous 18 years).