Sentence examples for simple eulogy from inspiring English sources

The book is monumental, but no gravestone, nor simple eulogy.

But perhaps it is the simple eulogy for George Washington that is now most fitting for South Africa's founding black president: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen".

But O'Casey's play is not a simple eulogy to the week-long revolt by armed rebels from the nationalist Irish Volunteers and communist Irish Citizens Army, who seized the General Post Office and other buildings in the then colonial capital, only to be crushed by the first deployment of modern artillery against an inner city.

At the funeral in Berthierville former teammate Jody Scheckter delivered a simple eulogy: "I will miss Gilles for two reasons.

Unexpectedly, one of the most poignant tributes came from rocker Lenny Kravitz, who posted a simple, solemn eulogy video on Youtube.

But many Americans' sharpest memory of him is the brief eulogy in simple words and spare sentences he delivered for John F. Kennedy as the slain president lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol.

But the eulogies were simple, in keeping, perhaps, with Mr. Hinckley himself, who was described as self-effacing and always ready to poke fun at pretension, as he did some years back in walking into a meeting of senior church leaders in their dark suits, white shirts and conservative ties and telling them, by way of hello, that they all looked like penguins.

Her funeral service lasted barely 20 minutes, a simple prayer service stripped of eulogies and remembrances.

KurtCobain's life and music were much more complex, more riven by tension, than the simple, voice-of-alienated-youth eulogies let on.

François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig, another of Napoleon's generals of plebeian origins and with whom Ordener had developed a long-standing friendship, gave the eulogy: "It is not because of simple regrets and because of honorable mourning that we must recognize the services of a warrior who has dedicated his whole life to his fatherland and his prince.

For all the high ceremony of the day and some six addresses of eulogy, it was Mr. Bradlee who kept things simple as he told newspaper tales about Mrs. Graham.