Sentences with phrase «carving gravestones»

I wrote out a list of names of everyone I had ever slept with — it was really difficult — almost like carving gravestones.

The town of Williston forms part of the three sister towns of the Karoo Highlands; here you can follow the trail of Cornelius de Waal, a giant of a man who earned a small wage carving gravestones years ago.

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That should be a worthy epitaph to be carved on our gravestones.

If critics have a function anymore besides carving their own gravestones on the marble of modern cinema, it's to point a finger at films like Junebug, which sounds like a thousand other pictures but is actually something all its own: a Southern Gothic in the tradition of Flannery O'Connor that treats its characters as more than plot - movers or cardboard caricatures.

Some folks claim it is at its healthiest point ever, while others are ready to carve it's gravestone and never speak of it again.

SECURING THE SHADOW: POSTHUMOUS PORTRAITURE IN AMERICA Americans once regularly commissioned portraits of their dead relatives, as seen in this major show of post-mortem images, ranging from 18th - century gravestone carvings to photographs.