Sentence examples for wake ends from inspiring English sources

Joyce's endings are almost sentimental: the ending of "Ulysses" is famously one big birthday-party-bright "Yes," while "Finnegan's Wake" ends neatly and hopefully, if dreamily, by returning to its beginnings.

Equally famously, "Finnegans Wake" ends midsentence, and so does "The Tale of Genji," the 11th-century Japanese novel, though scholars are still debating whether that's intentional or the result of an unfinished manuscript.

His last major work, "PN27 Penetrable, 'Rijanviera' " (the title was taken from a coinage referring to Rio de Janeiro in "Finnegans Wake"), ends the Whitney show in a spirit of chastening ritual.

Just before In the Wake ends in as devastating a fade-out as imaginable, Ellen dolefully clarifies the meaning of Kron's title.

The wake ended an hour early.

Or more specifically, the misjudged trip to Wetherspoons after the wake, ending in a chorus of: "everything was better in our day".

A similarly snotty manager of the local watering hole sees less destruction in his wake but ends up increasing employee turnover.

For Chung and Penrose, 2018 will bring the next installment of Arden's Wake, which ends with a cliff hanger as our heroine is swallowed by a sea monster the size of a skyscraper.

Sometime that night -- and only hours after Moleak Jackson's wake had ended -- another man from the neighborhood, Earl Pratt, made a disparaging remark about Mr. Jackson.

What he found was a wake without end in two tiny, barely furnished rooms where several men sat half-naked, sweating and drinking vodka with "terrible, bluish faces".

The idea, as I get it, is to wake up to end the constant delusion.