Sentence examples for reviving the dead from inspiring English sources

Directing opera provides a pleasure akin to reviving the dead".

But when survivors reestablished YIVO in New York City, it faced the impossible task of reviving the dead — and many of the living weren't interested.

In popular consciousness these men were wonder-workers healing the sick and reviving the dead, foretelling the future, and helping to find lost objects.

Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, indicated that such war games are artificial scenarios that inevitably require a certain amount of unreality, like reviving the dead.

In his book Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past, Simon Reynolds argues that the very hipster crowd set on making the kitsch cool and reviving the dead aesthetic of past decades ought to be the exact people moving culture forward.

Lott delves into his family history, poring over photographs and yellowed jottings, gathering testimony, reviving the dead in new colours and compendious detail – a petty villain on the rob, a grandfather destroyed by grief, a simple-minded uncle mired in a helpless lethargy.

The power of love revives the dead in this great artistic hymn to desire.

Dead Like Me creator Bryan Fuller stuck with the Great Beyond in this dark comedy starring Lee Pace as a man with the ability to revive the dead.

Eleven thousand gulden!" — as though, now that the money was there, they should at least make some effort to revive the dead man.

The only juice available was orange, freshly squeezed, and the cortado coff ee was of a quality, as they say in Spain, to revive the dead.

The aid will go only a short way to repairing that – and no sum can restore lost limbs or revive the dead.