Sentence examples for resurrection man from inspiring English sources
noun
One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves; a graverobber.
And, worst of all, the voyeuristic and obscene Resurrection Man slobbered all over the Shankill Butchers atrocities.
Mitch Shelly is RESURRECTION MAN, who keeps dying only to be reborn into the body of a recently deceased person – with a different superpower each time.
It is Arthur Miller's final work, Resurrection Man, a searing nightmare about a South American banana-republic president who decides to execute a rebel leader by crucifixion - live on television.
Inevitably, there will be cries of exploitation, a charge levelled against Marc Evans's underrated Resurrection Man, which controversially reinterpreted the loyalist brutalities of the Shankill Butchers as a tale of latterday vampires.
Further television roles during these five years included women's football team coach John Dolan in the first two series of Kay Mellor's Playing the Field (appearing alongside his Cold Feet co-star John Thomson), investigative journalists Ryan and David Laney in Resurrection Man (Marc Evans, 1998) and Touching Evil II respectively, and womaniser Stanley in Women Talking Dirty (Coky Giedroyc, 1999).
Resurrection men remain busy, in defiance of the 1832 Anatomy Act.
It certainly freed the anatomy schools from their reliance on the nefarious resurrection men.
As the curator, Jelena Bekvalac, explains "this was the time of the resurrection men, the body snatchers".
He's similarly sketchy, a bad man who employs what in the 18th and early 19th centuries were called "resurrection men" to dig up fresh cadavers — "things," in their slang — and sell them to medical schools for student dissections.
21 is a markedly theological one, namely whether, if the soul were to take on other ashes at resurrection, a man would be numerically the same as he was before.
Anyone who knew Carver will be continually delighted and horrified at Kinder's eerie resurrection of the man, who's called Ralph Crawford here (Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden being the other archetype).
