Sentences with word «epitaph»

An epitaph is a short written statement or inscription on a tombstone or monument that honors and remembers a deceased person. Full definition
This declaration, the last formal statement the artist made before his premature death the following year, provides a fitting epitaph for Judd's artistic career, striving as he did to find a new, more rigorous, raison d'etre for artistic endeavor in the twentieth century.
We must do it now; Today - not tomorrow because we do not want the historical epitaph of charter schools to be «too little too late.»
Back Kynseed at this level and we'll get you to write a small bio about yourself which we'll then use to come up with a personalised epitaph on a specific gravestone in the land of Quill that you can find and go to if you ever want to pay respects to yourself.
Their works might, like (Keith) Coventry's, be seen as epitaphs to values we can no longer hold with any certainty.
In a village near Gersik, northwest of Surabaya on the island of Java, a loose headstone from a grave has been found which bears an Arabic epitaph in Kufic script saying that the grave held the remains of a woman who died in 475 or 495 (A.D. 1082 or 1102)-- the uncertainty is due to the difficulty in deciphering one word which may be either seventy or ninety.
I wrote Epitaph, and decided to do what never works.
As announced at WonderCon, Steve Niles and Matt Pizzolo have teamed up with Epitaph Records to distribute creator - owned comics.
So, how will you spend National Write Your Own Epitaph Day?
Even some of the brightest students see suicide as a fitting epitaph for a hopeless life.
Seriously, November 2nd is «National Write Your Own Epitaph Day
But if he's laid to rest, he rests in the company of some of the world's finest human beings, whose epitaph reads, unselfish love.
«Because we don't get to spend as much time as the founders and devolve our conversations into hour - long epitaphs about cream cheese and whatever.»
The only comparable work I can think of is Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial in Washington, that great black wall of names stretching into the distance, an unfurling epitaph telling of the long - dead and history's mistakes.
It is also possibly, whatever good or bad may come, Mr. Flaherty's political epitaph.
There may never be a more appropriate epitaph for Chris Grayling's time as justice secretary than that offered when he addressed the Joint Committee on Human Rights last year.
Epitaph Records owner (and co-founder of Bad Religion) Brett Gurewitz returns to the producer's seat for this one, wringing a thrashy but precise performance out of the well - seasoned quartet.
Brice Marden: Two New Paintings with Five Tang Dynasty Stone Epitaphs will be on view at the Matthew Marks Gallery, 523 West 24th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) through June 27th, 1997.
There was also an interactive timeline revealing the characters» lives before the events of the film, an article from the Tombstone Epitaph newspaper that first reported the O.K. Corral incident, a «Faro at the Oriental» DVD - ROM card game, and two physical goodies: a booklet of production notes and a collectible map drawn out by Wyatt Earp himself.
He gets closest to tying down the «richness» of vision to which he frequently appeals by using Lewis» famous epitaph: «I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else» (p. 65).
I know many people of faith who support gay rights and consider using the word «sodomite» to be on par with using racial epitaphs.
House of Commons, beware: the Johnson era, phase two, is on its way and «Boris Johnson, prime minister» is still the intended epitaph.
The headstone bears a remarkable epitaph revealing the contradiction of the American revolutionary call for freedom and liberty while upholding and profiting from slavery.
Sarah Lucas, EPITAPH BLAH BLAH, 2018 at kurimanzutto, Mexico City, 2018 Photo: Omar Luis Olguín.
This was technology investor Marc Andreessen's moribund epitaph for the retail industry in a January 2013 interview.
That will make for a fine epitaph, Ms. Moss.
In «Candid Headstone,» a poem intended to serve as his grim epitaph, he does offer a clue — but so delicately that only those who already knew of the connection between Juster and Astrue could get the pun:
A search was never done — very possibly the same fate Juster imagines for himself, and thus his own truer epitaph.
That should be a worthy epitaph to be carved on our gravestones.
I know they are his ego because, well, that is what he named one of them, a put - upon German shepherd who, when he finally gave up his ghost, earned his master's most dismissive epitaph: «Poor Ego never learned to stand up for hisself.»
«I didn't kill him,» he explained afterward, «he committed suicide — came within 50 yards of me,» a fitting if unintended epitaph for the General's wartime opponents.
It suggests also that John Humphreys» proposed epitaph for Mr Farage: Nigel Farage: he led a great protest party, may well be on the money.
«If «Iraq» is the word that Tony Blair's famous «hand of history» chisels on his political tombstone, then for Gordon Brown the words «Debt Crisis» will serve as a suitable epitaph
On the tapes, Seminerio was heard offering his own cynical epitaph: «What the f ------ does it mean that we're elected officials?»
McCoy later added the damning epitaph: «Alan forgive me, I don't know where you have been for the last few days.»
When the author Shimon Edelman was 8, he came upon Christopher Logue's poem Epitaph, which asks: «What is the greatest happiness...
Other excavations in the area have revealed gladiator epitaphs, a circus for chariot races, and thermal baths.
As studies of epitaphs show, skilled gladiators rarely survived more than 10 matches, dying on average at the age of 27.
A bestseller in Raulff's native Germany, Farewell to the Horse is a moving epitaph to a one - sided and often brutal animal - human relationship that shaped the modern world.
I would argue that The Water Diviner is a light, somber epitaph to the generation of young men lost on both sides of the Middle Eastern campaign and the people they left behind.
Likewise, the characters have a way of poking fun at the cosmos they inhabit, never taking their predicaments too seriously; there's always time for a witticism, even during attacks or infighting — or for a snarky epitaph when an enemy is dispatched.
Indeed, the grandiose last moments are outrageously risky, though Amiri Baraka leaves the audience with a haunting epitaph for the film's own form of freedom ride.
But in the end, the cookie - cutter American Outlaws delivers an all - too - familiar epitaph, particularly during and for the summer - movie season.
«A life spent at the movies gets the cinematic epitaph it richly deserves in Life Itself, documentarian Steve James» meticulous and intensely emotional portrait of the late Roger Ebert.»
He also peppers the dialogue with so many curses and racial and anti-woman epitaphs, the working title should have been the «Nigger, Bitch, Fuck» movie.
But as darkness descends in the closing moments, finer points come into greater focus, culminating in a morally ambivalent epitaph for the modern Romantics; the bohemian rock stars and their libertine pretenders.
It's a possibly interesting curio for someone in the future who'll be wandering the future desert of the budget shelves, only to find a strange package emblazoned with a curious epitaph.
It might be time for a rethink: «The Wild Bunch» is still very much with us, in every movie that gushes slo - mo rivers of blood in the name of brotherly principle, in every action film that lunges for timely political complexity amid the spent ammo casings and slung epitaphs.

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