How To Use Obituary In A Sentence

  • Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten. Your Right Hand Thief
  • Every day that passes sees the obituary columns of broadsheet newspapers bring us more examples.
  • Shortly afterwards the Guardian, a British broadsheet newspaper, published the obituary of Cohn Osman, founder of Creative Camera.
  • He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.
  • Had it not been for the obituary notice they placed in the Mumbai newspapers, this once well-known abstractionist's death on June 23, at the age of 76, might have passed unnoticed.
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  • I'm sorry I didn't mention that when I wrote his obituary or delivered his eulogy.
  • Oh, and yes, you read the obituary correctly - he is survived by his older sister, my great-aunt Shirley.
  • Alongside is her name in black bold square print - the kind used in obituary notices.
  • According to an obituary in the British Medical Journal in 1934, Bevan-Brown taught a long series of house surgeons at Christchurch Hospital and was associated with St George's Hospital, the Karitane Hospital, and the St John Ambulance Association. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
  • The obituary is highly laudatory, a testimony of praise for a creative artist.
  • Guest book and obituary at fleming-billman. com and starbeacon. com. The Star Beacon; Ashtabula, Ohio Home Page
  • My adoptive mother gave me a copy of his obituary and three pictures of my father and told me the story.
  • The Warwickshire captain is used to reading his obituary notice in the columns of the national newspapers.
  • And every day he reads out another short, potted obituary culled from the New York Times website.
  • The Warwickshire captain is used to reading his obituary notice in the columns of the national newspapers.
  • His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals.
  • We respected the wishes of Patricia's friends, who wrote the obituary as they saw fit.
  • Let his obituary read, "Douglas Martin, a newspaperman who once got the word" sesquipedalian "onto the front page of the New York Times .... NYT A1: Sesquipedalian!!!! - Swampland - TIME.com
  • How do you write a decent obituary when the corpse-to-be is doing such a good job of it himself?
  • The descriptor words themselves appeared one or more times within a particular obituary or across different obituaries.
  • He thoroughly deserved his long obituary, the tone of which is almost adulatory in parts, even allowing for the deferential standards of the time.
  • The title appeared to be officially dead when Wired published its obituary in late 2009. Duke Nukem Forever ships May 3
  • Among the accomplishments cited in his Time magazine obituary are debunking “such myths as the need to wash mushrooms, devein shrimp and press garlic” and preaching the “imaginative use of leftovers.” Archive 2008-04-01
  • • Brian Simpson Obituary, 2 February was indeed a gifted raconteur. Letters: Nukes in safe hands
  • Is all this prem -- in other words, whether Bradley is doing well or not, should the press be writing his obituary now, Michelle? CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Are Journalists Clueless About Christian Conservatives? - March 4, 2000
  • Then there was an obituary reference made by the Speaker and Prime Minister about Kishore Sanu, a freedom fighter who worked for the uplift of poor.
  • He also does not want a memorial service or even an obituary in the newspaper.
  • I should like to add a postscript to your obituary for John Cage.
  • The New York Times obituary quotes Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis, Kennan's authorized biographer: ‘He'll be remembered as a diplomatist and a grand strategist of the cold war.’
  • Her obituary called her one of the most remarkable newspaperwoman of her time.
  • We may not know when Hillary's obituary will be printed – but I think it's pretty easy to predict what the epitaph on her tombstone is going to say: Clinton reviewing 'options' - but says superdelegates could shift
  • I've not read any obituary or appreciation of his life. Times, Sunday Times
  • We may not know when her obituary will be wriiten – but I think it's pretty easy to predict what the epitaph on her tombstone is going to say: Vilsack says it's over
  • The obituary was the usual nostalgic whitewash.
  • Your obituary listed the many publications he produced highlighting the inadequacies of education in this country. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps this is an obituary after all, for the loss of a mature political culture in which public service was its own enduring reward.
  • The family regrets and apologizes for the omission in the previous obituary.
  • Did you ever see his obituary in the Citizen?
  • I should like to add a postscript to your obituary for John Cage.
  • The lyrics intermittently scan as clunkily as the predictable doggerel people send in to newspapers' obituary sections.
  • The New York Times obituary is overly keen to pigeonhole him in the Movement.
  • This letter contained an obituary notice and some psychotic ramblings.
  • Write a short obituary for yourself. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
  • On his next tour, when it came to all the "progress" training the Iraqi army, let Rod Nordland, the author of that "fawning" - his retrospective adjective, not mine - Newsweek cover piece of 2004, suggest an obituary, as he did in 2007: Get out now.
  • It's only fitting to link to the Washington Post obituary, co-credited to Woodward himself, although the New York Times obit is actually more enlightening. December 2008
  • It began with an obituary and a reporter's talk with a grieving family.
  • She saw his name in an obituary column.
  • Forrest's obituary says of his pre-War years, "He was known to his acquaintances as a man of obscure origin and low associations, a shrewd speculator, negro trader, and duelist... Burns Strider: License Plates, Heritage and Fellow Mississippians
  • The London Daily Telegraph pioneered some years ago a franker approach to obituary writing in which journalists were prepared to write about the failings and eccentricities, as well as the virtues, of their subjects.
  • An obituary compared her to a cucumber sandwich and a knitted jumper. Times, Sunday Times
  • Note 82: For information on Bellamy, see his obituary in Columbian Sentinel, March 28, 1835, Finch, Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
  • Write a short obituary for yourself. 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
  • I can also remember coming home from lunch one day into my dormitory room; my mother had sent me a letter, and out of it fell an obituary of a young man who died in Iwo Jima. What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: "Life would never be the same again"
  • In fact I read it in his obituary but it didn't stick because for forty years the lanky man with the loping stride who walked all over town was simply known as Boy.
  • In the newspaper the following day his contact was in the obituary section, seems he had died of an overdose.
  • One was essentially an obituary, a fond and sympathetic good-bye from a fellow writer who admired his talent and thought of him as a friend. Lance Mannion:
  • Steinbeck's appreciation of him is partly an obituary, partly an attempt to exorcise his ghost.
  • In his obituary, The Times recorded that ‘Wittgenstein showed the characteristics of a religious contemplative of the hermit type’, and referred to his extreme abnegation and retirement.
  • It's just a scaled-down showbiz obituary service. The Sun
  • The BBC's obituary was delivered by its media correspondent, Nick Higham, a ferrety cultural bureaucrat who has never written a sentence anyone has remembered. Christopher Hitchens: He died too young, with too much left to say | Nick Cohen
  • One of the regulars was the man who walked around the town pasting large posters on the walls, usually obituary notices.
  • Long gone is the era when an artist 's retrospective arrived only shortly before his obituary. Times, Sunday Times
  • He also handles the obituary page on the local newspaper.
  • Newspaper obituary columns are changing but they are essentially respectful of the dead.
  • This might be recorded on their tombstone as an epitaph or in an obituary, commemoration portrait, or in some cases a biography.
  • This obituary, I suspect, may turn out to be an epitaph on a culture of knowledge and scholarship.
  • This issue contains articles on the use of dog whelks (Nucella lapillus) to produce purple dye, neolithic ornaments made from shells of the spiny oyster Spondylus gaederopus, the clausiliid snail Papillifera papillaris (by yours truly), an obituary for Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006) and other useful bits of information on mollusks and archaeology. Archive 2006-04-01
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  • Also, even if you don't have a very long life expectancy right now, if you let me write your obituary I am changing your birthdate so it looks like you were at least 200- 'cause otherwise the amount of stuff you have done will shame me far too much as a lesser being who actually would rather NOT, say, spelunk in active volcanoes... you're going to respond and say you've done that, aren't you? Things I think about in bed, and why I need to get out MORE
  • The AP obituary says it was lung cancer and ascribes the disease to his smoking history, both of which I think are incorrect.
  • And there was his obituary, with a lithograph of a stout, balding man in a cassock with a slightly forked beard.
  • Alice Davis Menken stood at the forefront of what her New York Times obituary calls “the evolution of penology from an attitude of sentimentality and punishment to the broader conception of mercy and rehabilitation.” Alice Davis Menken.
  • Brooke himself, Churchill assured readers of his obituary, had been "joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed ... ruled by high undoubting purpose. Jill Dawson's novel about Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover"
  • What I had been doing was more intrusive even than Sweetie imagined, for bundled with the obituary was a stack of love letters, written over a long period to Momi, Buddy's ex-wife, the earliest a few years ago, the most recent ones dated just before Buddy hired me. Beard
  • Because the obituary I had accidentally found online, if it truly was his obituary, was the skimpiest obituary I had ever seen. Googling A Ghost
  • One of the regulars was the man who walked around the town pasting large posters on the walls, usually obituary notices.
  • Those of his first three years of hard and careful work show him throughout in high spirits, and, doubtless, during this time, that reputation for hospitality and urbanity which is mentioned in his obituary notice was well deserved. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
  • So don't fret about distractions like whether or not Murdoch retains his title or position at News Corp. Here's all that matters: this amoral grotesquerie is going to be in the lead of his obituary. Paul Slansky: Karmageddon
  • Bryn JonesBath• Ian Jack's use of the word "affair" to describe the sexual abuse of 16-year-old Michael Ward by his mother Obituary, 18 May was bizarre. Letters: Brighton early
  • One obituary notes that "he won the respect of all by his wide sympathy, his justice, his never-failing kindness, and his complete lack of self-seeking."
  • Allcomers were treated with the gentle but firm courtesy which you outlined in your excellent obituary. Times, Sunday Times
  • The steps he took might appear simple and obvious in hindsight, but they were far from easy at a hidebound institution seemingly intent on writing its own obituary.
  • Kahn's obituary recounted his impressive resumé but no mention was made of the fact that he was also a trigamist who had secretly kept three separate families for years.
  • The obituary described Nureyev as 'a great dancer and a true artist'.
  • I've not read any obituary or appreciation of his life. Times, Sunday Times
  • This was the obituary notice that appeared in the paper regarding his death.
  • A humble and unassuming man, he might have been embarrassed by his obituary accolades.
  • I read Sewell's obituary in the Daily News.
  • Online funerals would not retain the ashes, but set up an online cemetery and memorialize the deceased by posting an obituary and funeral messages.
  • When I got home, I scanned newspapers and teletext looking for his obituary.
  • What follows is probably a gross violation of copyright law, since it's the whole obituary, complete and unabridged.
  • The daily newspaper there recently omitted the name of the partner of a deceased gay man in its free obituary notice.
  • Mrs. Douaoui says one French journalist who she prefers not to mention by name wrote at the top of his of his obituary "the pillager of Africa is dead. Voodoo Still Casts Its Spell
  • Every day that passes sees the obituary columns of broadsheet newspapers bring us more examples.
  • He did not live on a luxury yacht in the Caribbean as your obituary suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • Finally when this, and this alone, could have induced a genuine Poet to inweave in a poem of the loftiest style, and on subjects the loftiest and of most universal interest, such minute matters of fact, (not unlike those furnished for the obituary of a magazine by the friends of some obscure "ornament of society lately deceased" in some obscure town,) as Biographia Literaria
  • One of the most striking pieces uses old printing plates used to print the obituary notices posting news of a death in the neighbourhood.
  • I may have on occasion sunk to record production, when I was unable to find more respectable work as a forger or rumrunner, but it is not something I would wish to see in the first paragraph of my obituary. EVENING’S EMPIRE
  • So that's Ike Turner's death dealt with in full, revealing yet another bulletpoint for the footnote of his obituary. Ike Turner: Dead
  • In an obituary that he prepared, Mr. Jahnke described his late wife as a "tenacious" cancer patient, outliving the three-year life expectancy for her type of ovarian cancer by nearly five years. Former H-P Chairman Patricia Dunn Has Died
  • Rawlinson's London Times obituary said that he wore his ribbons and decorations ‘worthily,’ having earned all of them.
  • In Tacitus's obituary he is an unamiable novus homo (first man of his family to reach the consulship.
  • This year must have been one of mixed emotions for a producer of a music obituary show. Times, Sunday Times
  • He learned about Jim's death through an announcement in the obituary section.
  • As the Black Panther Party newspaper Panther Speaks wrote in their obituary of Clemente, "It is ironic that the profession in which he achieved 'legendry' [status] knew him the least. Common Bond for Uncommon Men: Roberto Clemente and Martin Luther King
  • He did not live on a luxury yacht in the Caribbean as your obituary suggests. Times, Sunday Times
  • _Athenæum_ necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
  • I telephoned Chadwick's so that they could fax the obituary with the funeral notice to the newspapers.
  • It's sick for the obituary to lionize a black-hearted murderer without even a mournful mention of his innocent victims.

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