Sentences with phrase «watched caskets»

I've said it myself, or at least something very like it, at gravesides as I've watched caskets descend into holes as seemingly bottomless as the central shafts into which the water descends in the reflecting pools at Ground Zero.

Watching his casket being lowered into the ground.

Anyone who has stood at a graveside and watched a casket lowered into the earth will understand his point.

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On Saturday, I watched good friends carry a miniature white casket up the aisle of our parish church, to be laid before the altar for a funeral Mass..

As Sir Ken's casket was carried inside the cathedral hundreds of mourners gathered under a big screen outside to watch as the service began, with opening prayers led by Canon Myles Davies, acting Dean of Liverpool.

We watch the preparation of the body, we watch the transportation of the casket, its deliberate verification at each checkpoint, and the respect shown for the dead soldier who gave his life in battle.

A cemetery caretaker and his big, mono - syllabic assistant watch over a graveyard where some of the dead have a habit of crawling out of their caskets seven days after they die and attempting to munch on the living.

After watching this scene, pupils can then learn about the role of symbolism, allegory and imagery and their relation to the caskets.

At the graveside they held their hats over their hearts, eyes blazing as they watched Mae's mother, Azzie, weep over the casket.

Just in case you missed that little gossip gem, here's how he explained it to Vanity Fair: «I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive away when a beautiful blonde woman comes up and embraces me,» Ryan told me.