Sentence examples for professional mourners from inspiring English sources

Professional mourners led the wailing; a band played.

All write stunningly good dialogue, and all are professional mourners of the good old days.

To stay awake, Lim begins to play poker with Pang and his son and the other professional mourners.

Honouring the dead can be an extravagant affair in many parts of China, with ceremonies sometimes featuring professional mourners, uniformed marching bands and motorcades of limousines.

It's no surprise that Ville Rose's mayor is also the town undertaker, or that Claire's mother came from a family of professional mourners and worked in the mayor's funeral parlor, washing and dressing the dead.

Later, in the early 14th century, the first representations appear of the heavily cloaked and cowled professional mourners who were normally employed to follow the coffin in a funeral procession.

Hire yourself a professional mourner, Jim.

Even the characters' jobs -- toboggan maker, detritus gaffer, professional mourner, philologist -- are idiosyncratic but, in the context of the story, believable and even necessary.

Ms. McDermott gives Marie the perfect job: hostess and professional mourner at a funeral parlor, where she will re-encounter dead characters who remain very much alive in her imagination.

But in 1990, as Nelson Mandela's release from prison was inaugurating a new era, an image began to obsess Mda — that of a professional mourner who ekes out a living from township funerals.

(Sinagra) PAPA WEMBA & VIVA LA MUSICA (Monday) The Congolese soukous bandleader Papa Wemba, whose commanding vocal style was influenced by his professional mourner mother, has been smartly mixing rhumba, Parisan fusion, and stateside rock with muscular versatility since 1970.