Sentences with phrase «called undertakers»

Funeral Directors provide funeral and embalming services and are also called undertakers or morticians.

He'd already been married in Marin, had four kids, got divorced, raised his two sons Mike and Lad (been given the «mother of the year» award by his local PTA), discovered the woman next door had cancer (they'd been having an affair while he was married to his first wife, who'd moved to Hawaii with his two daughters), married her, watched her die in their bed, taken a shower, called the undertaker, buried her, and a few years short of fifty, moved into this massive, six - apartment - sized penthouse apartment by himself.

Hopefully they subside soon before I start imagining the worst and calling the undertaker.

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Funeral directors, undertakers, «morticians» (as they are called in the United States) may be responsible in large measure for this unrealistic state of affairs.

Gesturing around at Marlow & Sons, Reynolds — whose general contracting company is called Execution by Design — told me that a lot of the aesthetic was inspired by old French and Italian restaurants, and the all - purpose Irish pubs («Some are grocery store, bar, undertaker, post office — everything but a church») he'd been to in the west of Ireland, while visiting his father's family or heading out to the country while at school in Galway.

It all started with an obese undertaker called William Banting....

Various high - fat diet fads like Atkins have been masquerading under different names for over a hundred years, starting in 1864 when an English undertaker and coffin maker by the name of William Banting wrote a book called Letter on Corpulence.

Richter's «take» on life appears to be that of a man permanently focused on «the dark side of the road,» and he has consequently been called many negative things: «dour undertaker, dry - eyed mourner, systematic debunker of clichés and lethal parodist,» among others, writes Robert Storr, in the huge catalogue which accompanies the exhibition, «Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.»

The multi-faceted roles of morticians, alternately called funeral directors or undertakers, are undeniably demanding.