Sentence examples for mourned like from inspiring English sources

We talk about "style icons"; Diana was mourned like a goddess.

But for generations of followers, the unassuming singer was more than an icon: she was someone who felt like one of us, and who will be mourned like an absent friend.

Former Tory MP Louise Mensch, with no apparent sense of irony, invoked precepts of propriety to announce: "Pygmies of the left so predictably embarrassing yourselves, know this: not a one of your leaders will ever be globally mourned like her". This demand for respectful silence in the wake of a public figure's death is not just misguided but dangerous.

I mean, that'd be like saying that not a single left-wing leader will ever be mourned like Margaret Thatcher.

Their mourning, like their living, is singular and isolated.

And so they do not have rosters to mourn like this.

"We wanted to mourn like everyone else," he continued, "but we had to be looking over our shoulders.

Chopped hair could be used to imitate the leaves of trees associated with mourning, like the weeping willow.

The goal was to avoid the risk of denial or isolation commonly observed in a context of suffering as well as the risk of leaving the mourning, like the healthcare professionals, bear alone their unspoken incomprehension of the death of a child.

Faust, like most American academic historians, is a pragmatically lily-livered social constructionist: she thinks that ways of mourning, like lust and greed and kinship and other seemingly hardwired features of human experience, are remarkably plastic.

The critic in Ms. O'Rourke brings an argument to bear in these pages — the idea that, as a society, we may have been wrong to abandon the public rituals of mourning, like the wearing of black, the beating of chests.