Sentences with phrase «public funeral»
A public funeral is a ceremony held to remember and honor someone who has died and is open to anyone to attend. Full definition
The experiences we see Jackie undergo — informing her two small children of their father's death, organizing her husband's televised public funeral, consulting with a Catholic priest (John Hurt) about the seeming indifference or cruelty of God — are wrenching, but I didn't feel the least bit wrenched.
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He drafted a farewell letter and organized a public funeral in Toronto, knitting together the personal and political in his final weeks and days in a way that made them indistinguishable.
The Bishop of Leicester lead a public funeral service on Friday for three victims of an explosion in... More
(They probably won't have a public funeral anyway; they'll do some ritual or the other in the church basement)
The Bishop of Leicester lead a public funeral service on Friday for three victims of an explosion in the city.
Till was returned to Chicago and his mother, who had raised him mostly by herself, insisted on a public funeral service with an open casket to show the world the brutality of the killing.
A public funeral for «True Blood» star Nelsan Ellis will be held on Saturday, July 22 at Holy Temple Cathedral in Harvey, Ill., a suburb south of Chicago.
Till's mother insisted on an open casket at the public funeral, so that the horror of her son's death was not minimized by social convention.
In 1951 Alice Neel painted Death of Mother Bloor, which shows the public funeral in Harlem of Ella Reeve «Mother» Bloor, the revered American Communist organizer and suffragist, who died in the midst of McCarthy's witch hunts.
A public funeral for famed physicist Stephen Hawking was held at Great St. Mary's Church in Cambridge, England, on Saturday, with Eddie Redmayne, who won an Oscar for playing Hawking in «The Theory...