Sentence examples for moving memorials from inspiring English sources

One of the most moving memorials in Berlin, at the Bebelplatz, is an underground room lined floor-to-ceiling with empty bookshelves.

The elegant marble slab, which includes a stone statue of a mother consoling a child, is one of New York's most moving memorials, and every October the Fire Department had assembled there to honor its fallen.

Maya Lin's memorial to the American casualties in Vietnam, in Washington DC (widely agreed to be one of the most eloquent and moving memorials of modern times) is – for its impact – relatively small.

Mr Obama, along with several cabinet members and congressmen, flew to the scene of the tragedy, Tucson, for a moving memorial service.

It is a staggeringly moving memorial and a testament to the subtlety of which this big, brash city can be capable.

Even here in the middle of Kansas, the attacks of Sept. 11 moved people to raise money and give blood, and we had our own moving memorial service.

We watched tapes of two of the moving memorial services: one in Gaza, which was shot at by the Israeli army, another in Olympia.

Hundreds of marines gathered on the base outside Falluja at midday Tuesday for a simple, moving memorial for one of their comrades, 22-year-old Cpl.

A contrasting sense of solemnity followed in two brief yet moving memorial works for unaccompanied soprano saxophone by Mark-Anthony Turnage.

This moving memorial pays tribute to the animals that have died in 20th century conflicts, from horses, dogs and pigeons to elephants, camels and even glow worms.

Outside the Palace of Justice in Palermo is a moving memorial to the 12 Sicilian magistrates who have been assassinated since the 1980s.The magistrates have not been overwhelmed by help from Rome.