Sentence examples for shadow of mortality from inspiring English sources

And his play is at its most affecting when it portrays courtships conducted in the shadow of mortality.

The shadow of mortality hangs over This Ride (written after a friend's death), where the duo conjure joy from darkness.

Quarrelsome, greedy, gossipy and small-minded: what has always defined the Gordons of Harrison, Tex., glows all the brighter in the shadow of mortality.

Foremost, she explores the late innings of a successful marriage, in which husband and wife cling together in the shadow of mortality.

Like all southerners, he was keenly aware of death, but the shadow of mortality failed to darken his brilliance, and the famous slow pace of southern life only reminded Cy how much harder he had to work.

WHAT we see in "The Ambassadors," or hear in a piece of third-period music like Beethoven's B Flat String Quartet, Op. 130, is the awesome spectacle of a genius learning to live in the shadow of mortality.

I have nothing fresh to say about it.' Was he, I wondered, not tempted to write a comedy to dispel the chill shadows of mortality?

Near the voyage's end, Fernando -- with shadows of mortality beginning to darken his ardor -- shows that all the deception has not entirely eroded trust by allowing Celia sole possession of Julieta's final secrets, and by that act more or less placing his life in her hands.

It reveals itself in hints and intimations, these reactionaries will say – the shadow that reminds of mortality; the sudden vista that reveals an unimagined loveliness; the brief glance that opens a new page.

As far as he knew, he was in good shape, but intimations of mortality shadowed him, and he thought a lot about the next political generation.

Though it appears without, it is within, in your imagination of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.