Sentence examples for ordinary dead from inspiring English sources

An ordinary dead man would have no choice but to go quietly into the next life.

The introduction of the doctrine of purgatory profoundly affected the postmortem care devoted to the ordinary dead.

Virgil's hell includes special compartments for infants and suicides and specific punishments for specific crimes, but the ordinary dead, who merit neither a hero's reward nor a scoundrel's punishment, remain unaccounted for.

The Christian All Souls' Day, on November 2, which follows directly after All Saints' Day, commemorates all the ordinary dead: requiem masses are celebrated for their repose, and in many Catholic countries relatives visit the graves and place lighted candles on them.

It was no ordinary dead-and-be-done-with-it death.

It gives ordinary dead-end decadence a certain vivacity and mysterious, qualities that, in art, can be ends in themselves.

Strauss's subjects are the damaged, the deranged, and the stubbornly ordinary — dead-end kids, tough broads, crackheads, angry guys — in their natural habitat.

For hundreds of thousands of heretofore ordinary, dead-end kids, art and literature and music were suddenly illuminated as ways of seeing and being, as worlds of personal possibility, in a way that school had rarely managed to reveal.

Mr Abe's visit in December 2013 to Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, which contains the spirits of notorious war criminals, alongside those of Japan's ordinary war dead, has had the effect of distracting precious attention from the economy.

Moreover, many LDP members on its dovish wing expressed fury at Mr Abe's visit last December to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, which honours convicted war criminals alongside ordinary war dead.

Her poems are often built on the logic of the pun, taking an ordinary word or dead cliché as a title and then jolting it to unexpected life.