Sentence examples for there were mourning from inspiring English sources
There were mourning masks from Melanesia with cascading beards of cockerel feathers; headdresses from Brazil and the Marquesas Islands, surmounted by feathered fans and diadems; skulls from Papua New Guinea topped by black plumes from a cassowary — a huge, reclusive bird that can gut a person with a stroke of its talons.
The mood at the terminal was particularly somber because many people there are mourning the Port Authority Police officers missing after the attack on the World Trade Center.
"There's mourning in America," a narrator intones.
"There's mourning in America," the new spot begins, as dreary images of unemployed workers and dilapidated buildings glide by.
There is mourning to be done in each and every case, and anger is a justified and inevitable consequence.
Revelation 21 4 provides an example of this style: "And death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more".
"When the past dies there is mourning," Steinem later wrote, "but when the future dies, our imaginations are compelled to carry it on".
The title "The Victor Weeps" alludes to the fact that although the Communists were defeated and the Soviets expelled, the human toll was so great that there was mourning rather than celebration.
There's mourning again in Henry Taylor's muted "Homage to a Brother," where behind the half-silhouetted torso of a departed boy, his name — Sean — stands in monumental capital letters.
For now, there is mourning.
