How To Use Posthumous In A Sentence

More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
Jackson is being honored posthumously with the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
From soon after his death posthumous miracles had begun to be attributed to him, and he was officially canonised by Pope John XXII in 1320.
He received a posthumous award for bravery.
They are Marc C. Bingham, entrepreneur and Utah businessman; Huey D. Johnson, pioneering conservationist and environmental policy maker; Bonnie D. Parkin, former Relief Society President for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; and Bertrand D. Tanner, eminent micrometeorologist and scientific entrepreneur, who will be honored posthumously. Undefined

A spokesperson for Limerick City Council said the freedom of the city has never been conferred posthumously.
For it is I think that gives the asseveration such grace and dignity, so that a small but not insignificant wrong is done when (on a couple of occasions in Posthumous Keats) his precisely guarded hope is indurated into "his statement to his brother George, in 1818, that he would be among the English poets after his death," within "a future that meant to place him 'among the English poets.' Keats's Afterlife
In 1632, two of Shakespeare's fellow actors published the First Folio, a posthumous collection of his works.
The posthumous publication of his diaries is awaited with trepidation by some and eager anticipation by those who knew him best. Times, Sunday Times
a posthumous daughter
Márai is in the almost unique position of having attained posthumous best-sellerdom (in country after country) because he distills plot and description to a magic essence of atmosphere, empathy and narrative tension that no European writer has achieved since Joseph Roth. Embers: Summary and book reviews of Embers by Sandor Marai.
As part of the bicentenary celebrations the Society is producing a facsimile of the Naval Gold Medal for Trafalgar, awarded posthumously to the hero of the Senior Service.
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Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times. Commonplace
Auddie murphy I knew this one at least. and to MLH it's being given posthumously because nowadays it seems that the only way you get one is to die for it just goes to show people's commitment to country there a godsend and deserve even more recognition. Here's one probably too easy for Del. Who was the most decorated soldier during WW2 and of all time?
Testaments were vitiated in several ways: nullum, void from the beginning, where there was a defect in the institution of the heir or incapacity in the testator; injustum, not legally executed and hence void; ruptum, by revocation or by the agnation of a posthumous child, either natural or civil; irruptum, where the testator had lost the civil status necessary for testation; destitutum, where the heir defaulted because dead or unwilling, or upon failure of the condition; recissum, as the consequence of a legal attack upon an undutiful will. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Did its reception shatter his confidence, leaving him unable to finish the other novels he worked on intermittently over his last years: "Islands in the Stream" and "The Garden of Eden" both published posthumously in heavily edited, and perhaps bowdlerized, editions? The Slow Crack-Up
See Flory 1987, 123–24 on evidence for posthumous conferral of the title and the evolving meaning of Augusta throughout the early imperial period. Caesars’ Wives
He was posthumously awarded a Certificate of Bravery which is still a treasured possession in the family.
There is another irony here, which involves a kind of contradistinction between present and posthumous fame. The Times Literary Supplement
I, being a posthumous child myself, took a more lenient view.
When one considers that this story is coming from the same man who, in his first novel, used the prince in disguise framework to tell a story about a young man posthumously repairing his relationship with his adoptive father and rejecting the notion of monarchic rule, and who, in Perdido Street Station, has the protagonist practically sell himself into slavery in order to secure the services of a local mobster, Un Lun Dun seems downright conservative in its adherence to fantasy tropes, which hobbles the novel's emotional effect. You Know, For Kids
She's his posthumous enabler, cutting him plenty of slack for his male needs, allowing him to poeticize his libido, making his affair with Wevill an artistic necessity.
Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
Making sense of his status as a postmodern social icon is as difficult as understanding his posthumous deification by millions of fans.
But the real pleasure of this posthumous effusion is the sheer joy the author evinces in showing off generous measures of tendentiousness and his undoubted historiographical bona fides. Cover to Cover
About a year ago I bought his posthumous collection To Outlive Eternity, which contained several very good long stories, such as the title novella, “The Day After Doomsday” and “The Big Rain.” Archive 2009-05-01
Salmasius rejoined in his Responsio, which similarly contains much personal abuse, published posthumously in 1660.
The naval officer did receive a posthumous George Cross for the operation, but due to secrecy he could not receive the United Kingdom's highest award for gallantry.
Yet even when Rome's enemies matched the superpower atrocity for atrocity, they were not necessarily forfeiting their chances of posthumous fame.
When he won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize, so many thousands of copies sold that, according to rumor, LSU decided the press no longer needed financial support, causing budget confusion in ensuing years without a blockbuster. UP
Parliamentarians were concerned about inheritance rights in instances where a dead man's estate or property is dispersed before a posthumous child is born.
The late Erik Bruhn, premier danseur and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, posthumously endowed a competition to encourage promising young dancers.
Her renown grew steadily after that, a large, posthumous retrospective of her work appearing at the Modern in 1972.
Not just Latin but plainsong as well, a posthumous defiance of all the changes and compromises which Anna Haycraft (to give her her real name) had deplored not just in the Catholic but all the Christian churches.
Posthumous prints have a little marking in Japanese characters on verso.
Largely unknown in his lifetime, Mendel's discoveries earned him posthumous fame.
Every medal winner is invited - with servicemen given posthumous awards represented by family. The Sun
He was of Border descent, but was born in or near London, the posthumous son of a clergyman.
A posthumous collection of her work has just been published.
One was Alexander IV, his posthumous son with a wife named Roxana.
The survivors 'personal testimonies, including my mother's words on the Movietone newsreel and her posthumously published memoirs, are their lasting legacy. Menachem Rosensaft: A Transfer of Memory
According to a posthumous biography "The Lee Papers," Mr. Lee argued that newspapers should be financially self-sufficient, so that they "could look any man or corporation or institution in the face and tell that man or corporation or institution to go to hell. For Vultures, Slim Pickings
This may explain why, much faster than usual, there have been a number of posthumous publications in little more than two years. The Times Literary Supplement
‘I feel that a posthumous award of some kind would be most appropriate, although I am not sure that one exists,’ he said.
The title extinct, the fortune gone -- so does Fate laugh at our posthumous ambition! Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete
This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography.
Today awarded posthumous Order of Conspicuous Merit , Second Class.
The posthumous op. 8 collection has been noted for its division into solo concertos and concerti grossi, the use of the ritornello principle, and the three-movement fast–slow–fast format. Archive 2009-04-01
Instead they died in the line of duty and subsequently received posthumous citizenship amidst much fanfare and flag-waving.
Yet whereas the mystique around such figures accumulates posthumously, he possesses it and lives.
This is why we call the posthumous life the only reality, and the terrestrial one, including the personality itself, only imaginary. Death—and After?
The posthumous publication of his diaries is awaited with trepidation by some and eager anticipation by those who knew him best. Times, Sunday Times
Erasmus Darwin's fate, his chronic diseases, strenuous urging of social and organic progress, and posthumous obloquy, were too close for comfort to his grandson's hopes and fears.
Maybe it's the proper term for being awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate.
That may seem surprising given his immense fame, but ambivalence about his status dogged his career and has pursued him posthumously. The Times Literary Supplement
She bought a house and Elric was born, and passed off as a posthumous child.
He also kept returning to posthumous publication as a way of allowing himself full frankness (and rancour). The Times Literary Supplement
Yet the principle of independent thought was too firmly rooted in Athens to be extirpated by the death of one individual; and so in time the accusers of Socrates were condemned and Socrates himself posthumously exonerated.
This is a fascinating, frustrating, entertaining and perplexing voyage through his psyche: a posthumous psychoanalysis in which the prostrate subject never gets the chance to sit up and protest.
It is my contention that Van Eyck's picture is a posthumous representation of Costanza, the only wife of Giovanni di Nicolao of whose existence we find any evidence.
Assuming that James did not really speak to Theodora Bosanquet from beyond the grave, his posthumous dictation presumably came from within her own mind.
The fact is Margaret never pretends to coherence despite her desire for posthumous fame.
These reflections, one of which we have just heard, were posthumously published from his diary jottings in a book called, in English, ‘Markings’.
Finally my copy of Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonard Tsypkin which Susan Sontag posthumously tipped me the wink about in her book of essays At the Same Time and I'm delighted that the hardback edition that I tracked down contains her introduction. 54 entries from April 2007
Could it be the posthumous public pronouncements were really only shameless self-serving exaggerations?
At one time or another (including copyrights) this person has had about fourteen hundred pounds of my money, and he writes what he calls a posthumous work about me, and a scrubby letter accusing me of treating him ill, when I never did any such thing. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
Subsequently it has only been through the reminiscences of his colleagues and through curators selecting his photographs posthumously for exhibitions, that Rudolf's work has reached any kind of public platform.
He did award posthumous medals of honor to the families of several soldiers on 22 April 1971 and on several other occasions.
His essays on sectionalism, published as The Significance of Sections in American History, won the Pulitizer Prize posthumously in 1933.
After the war she was posthumously awarded the George Cross.
It is a cankerous posthumous blot on the career of a very good architect, and her gentle and rather pandering critique of it is quite disappointing.
these piano pieces were published posthumously
The "oppressive past influence" sense of both "mortmain" and "dead hand" developed from the idea of the dead exercising posthumous control over their property by dictating how it must be used after they die. Latest Articles
And in the late 1660s he wrote a history of the civil wars, Behemoth; or, The Long Parliament, which was published posthumously (Hobbes 1668a). Thomas Hobbes
The original Act was keen to ensure that no succession or inheritance rights were obtained by posthumously conceived children or children born from embryos implanted posthumously.
Are there other posthumous bibliographies that bulk larger than their lifetime equivalents? The Times Literary Supplement
Merchant-Ivory then, without Jhabvala, tackled Forster's posthumously published "Maurice" and scored again. Forster Revisited
In the stricter sense the term dogmatic fact is confined to books and spoken discourses, and its meaning will be explained by a reference to the condemnation by Innocent X of five propositions taken from the posthumous book of Jansenius, entitled The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
For it is I think that gives the asseveration such grace and dignity, so that a small but not insignificant wrong is done when (on a couple of occasions in Posthumous Keats) his precisely guarded hope is indurated into "his statement to his brother George, in 1818, that he would be among the English poets after his death," within "a future that meant to place him 'among the English poets.' Keats's Afterlife
His posthumous political importance is obvious to any observer of the Indian scene.
Both women achieved posthumous fame, but the facts of their deaths are vile.
As he does so, however, he becomes concerned for his posthumous reputation.
The work remains, thankfully, and his posthumous reputation slowly builds. Times, Sunday Times
Bryan died on the homeward leg of a European journey in 1870, and the paintings he acquired on that trip formed a posthumous bequest to the society, swelling his lifetime gift to more than 375 works.
Fears that a new case had been found in Horton-in-Ribblesdale proved groundless earlier this week when posthumous tests proved negative.
We owe to him a note on the curvature of elastic rods, several works on the flow of air, and finally, in 1848, an important posthumous note on the rectilinear diameters of curves.
This year, Jackson will be afocal point of the show, with an unprecedented posthumous tribute. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
At the center of Posthumous Keats is the journey deathward. Keats's Afterlife
Moss Icon only became posthumously "popular" in the underground world in the early '90s, after which the band's brief tenure became known as a foundational moment in emotional -- but never Baltimore City Paper
Her posthumous book of poetry was edited and published by her estranged husband, Ted Hughes and her novel, The Bell Jar, became a bestseller and a film in the 1980s.
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As the posthumous only son of Geoffrey and Constance of Brittany, Arthur was duke of Brittany from the moment of his birth.
Somewhere between Faust's bartered lease on life and the Count's countless days — between the poet seeking an immortality in phrased voice that he thinks will compensate for his soul's fate and the damned polyglot soul so committed to leaving his body's imprint that poetic justice requires his being hounded down by textual inscription — somewhere between these poles falls the watershed Victorian moment of a long if ultimately posthumous Romanticism. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
It was precisely that virile habiliment to which a well-known gallant captain alludes in his conversation with the posthumous appearance of Miss Bailey, as containing a Bank of England 5 pound note. Tales of all countries
Yet he retains posthumous influence in the digital age. Times, Sunday Times
In his will, he prohibited the posthumous publication of anything he might have missed. The Passion of Michel Foucault
By means of his all-embracing love and mercy, God tends to the welfare of the universe, including the posthumous realms. William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Islamic Notion of Beauty
This year, a century after Mark Twain's death in 1910, the University of California Press is posthumously publishing "The Autobiography of Mark Twain," a three-volume 'unexpurgated' collection that promises never-before-seen glimpses into a man who continues to defy hard-lined definitions. Apartment Therapy Main
Two Bills are now dealing with matters of posthumous citizenship are before the U.S. House of Representatives.
For Americans have indeed taken posthumous possession of Britain's " People's Princess.
Largely unknown in his lifetime, Mendel's discoveries earned him posthumous fame.
Bolingbroke's many posthumous publications excited intense controversy in the decade which immediately followed his death.
The posthumous publication of his diaries is awaited with trepidation by some and eager anticipation by those who knew him best. Times, Sunday Times
She was born in 1888, a posthumous child, her father dying young.
Postumer Posthumous discoveries of Mozart works are rare but not unknown.
The church also places special emphasis on converting the dead: because of their belief that families are eternal, Mormons feel a duty to posthumously baptise ancestors so that all may be together in heaven. Mitt Romney leads the charge as Mormonism moves into the American mainstream
Mr. McLynn is as unsparing of the senior commanders in Burma as they were of each other: The "mentally unstable" Wingate is posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder; Chennault suffered from "monomania," was "essentially false" and "joined in the Chinese elite's corruption and peculation with avidity"; Chiang is described as having given his second wife a nasty venereal disease on their wedding night. Still Forgotten
The highest honour a nonmilitary person can receive, it can be awarded posthumously. The Sun
The posthumous op. 8 collection has been noted for its division into solo concertos and concerti grossi, the use of the ritornello principle, and the three-movement fast–slow–fast format. Archive 2009-04-01
Writers such as John Fowles, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess have also seen dips in their posthumous reputations, but are likely to be reassessed. Bibliophilia for Beginners
It's a bit of a wince, this Cold War cold sore, and is an occasion to recall the posthumousness-of-it-all. Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Rest in Peace, Billy Pilgrim
This second note again leaves the door open for more posthumous publication, and indeed a whole series of other books followed. The Times Literary Supplement
My father was what is generally termed a posthumous child — in other words, the gentillatre who begot him never had the satisfaction of invoking the blessing of the Father of All upon his head; having departed this life some months before the birth of his youngest son. Lavengro
Does a posthumous child have some subsequent claim over the estate of its dead father?
He got a lot of ink, posthumously, due to a November '98 struggle with two officers.
The divemaster was granted a posthumous award.
Records indicate that this subtly rendered but evidently posthumous image bore an inscription on its reverse identifying the subject as Wenceslas of Luxembourg.
This strange form of posthumous vindication is the unconscious tribute we lay on the graves of those who died for the Confederacy. Mike Musick: What if Lincoln lost the election?
(Unless the author is dead and the book is posthumous, which is a slightly different kettle of fish.) Msagara: Acts of faith & entitlement issues
One of the posthumous VCs, with another rifleman, was scouting ahead of a strong fighting patrol.
a posthumous award
At the very least the man who earned the posthumous soubriquet Father of the Nation should have known.
It may be an invention to discredit his posthumous reputation and supporters.
The posthumously released live album, RANK, is not mentioned at all and the participants monologize on Morrissey and Marr's subsequent solo careers in a bonus featurette. Kate Bush and The Smiths "Under Review"
Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame an Irish bull.
Largely unknown in his lifetime, Mendel's discoveries earned him posthumous fame.
He was confirmed posthumously as a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
Among them was a posthumous portrait statue of Nobunaga, which bears a dedicatory inscription dated 1583.
What should a renowned publishing house do when it wants to republish a not-so-good story and a very good story from a world-famous author posthumously?
Instead they died in the line of duty and subsequently received posthumous citizenship amidst much fanfare and flag-waving.
There is another irony here, which involves a kind of contradistinction between present and posthumous fame. The Times Literary Supplement
He brings this question as a plaintiff in the case he describes as a posthumous "love letter to the things Gerry believed in. Post-gazette.com - News
Thus, according to St Jerome, he was driven mad by a love philtre, wrote poetry in his lucid intervals, and died by his own hand, leaving his poem to be edited posthumously by Cicero. Lucretius
While there have been many distinguished American winners, including Tom Wolfe and John Updike, bad sex veterans reserve a special place in their hearts for Norman Mailer, who won posthumously in 2007 for a passage in which the word "excrement" is used so alarmingly that it threatens to put a reader off sex for good. NYT > Home Page
The special award, presented posthumously, exemplifies the spirit of Muskingum College.
Lacking an infrastructure to support his ambitions, though, Heinrich ended his days teaching girls for pennies on a broken-down piano in a garret, and hoping for posthumous understanding.
That may seem surprising given his immense fame, but ambivalence about his status dogged his career and has pursued him posthumously. The Times Literary Supplement
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Dear men hear no tales, posthumous fame is an irish bull.
The first is a private sketchbook, posthumously made public at a time when attention was turning again to this American maverick.
I biked over to Peaches, a record store owned by Moonies, and bought a copy of An American Prayer, the Jim Morrison spoken-word album released in 1978 with other Doors adding posthumous musical flourishes. When You're Strange: Jim Morrison, Great American Poet?
ROBERTS: He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, and in the Silver Star is a citation. CNN Transcript May 13, 2008
Matters are complicated by the wife of his brother, who has given birth to Bobby's posthumous son, and added into the equation is their welfare.
Pushkin is personally present in Russian culture in a way that has no parallel, for instance, in the posthumous lives of Shakespeare, Dante, or Goethe.
Only posthumously would he reap the literary acclaim he so justly deserved.
Largely unknown in his lifetime, Mendel's discoveries earned him posthumous fame.
Printed woodcuts and engravings spread the news of the monster throughout Europe, and as they spread, the monster acquired a new, posthumous, existence.
Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame an Irish bull.
Today, more than two decades later, his star has dimmed a bit - as always happens in literary circles, a few vultures have flown in to gnaw away at his corpus - but when one considers that between 1977 and 1988 he published five books, and that these have been supplemented by four more posthumous ones as well as three biographies, he remains a formidable if enigmatic presence. "The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
English philosopher Robert Hooke, in a discourse on earthquakes, written in 1688, but published posthumously in 1705, was aware that the fossil ammonites, nautili, and many other shells and fossil skeletons found in Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
No more so, surely, than his concern for the posthumous publication of his works.
He was confirmed posthumously as a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
He was the posthumous son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, fourth son of Henry II, by Constance, heiress of the Dukes of Brittany.
AN Army explosives sniffer dog that died hours after his handler in Afghanistan received a posthumous award yesterday. The Sun
Posthumous publications are ignored unless they constitute the first or a variant appearance of a poem.
A paedophile is posthumously lauded as a saviour of all mankind, the arrest of a convicted paedophile condemned as an 'immense cultural scandal'. Satire? We're Past That.
From soon after his death posthumous miracles had begun to be attributed to him, and he was officially canonised by Pope John XXII in 1320.
The posthumous engraved editions of Lully's operas reached high levels, and among French songbooks, Laborde's Choix de chansons is outstanding.
The Naked Soul of Sweet Jones" is thick with the unapologetic rhymes that made the Port Arthur, Tex. native a Southern rap superhero, but its Pimp's supple falsetto that truly amplifies this posthumous album's bittersweetness. Really quick spins: Gucci Mane, Lil Boosie, Lil Wayne, Pimp C, Waka Flocka Flame
Dear men hear no tales, posthumous fame is an irish bull.
This is not the first posthumous volume to appear. The Times Literary Supplement
She was a genius and deserves a posthumous award of some kind.
Still, Rogers was a credible scientist and he published the results of his microchemical tests in a credible peer-reviewed journal, even if he published the results posthumously. The Shroud Codex
But will the millions of children who adored Irwin’s life-affirming presence stick with him in posthumous reruns? Unfair Dinkum
For others, however, the reasons for the posthumous fame are more complex.
It is not wonderful that when Yoshimitsu died, the Chinese Emperor bestowed on him the posthumous title Kung-hsien-wang, or "the faithful and obedient king. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
All of these posthumous releases have nothing new to offer - how many times can you listen to a slightly different mix of that tune recorded in 1968?
But a campaign to have the men granted posthumous pardons has taken a dramatic turn.
Are we too, then, to be posthumously tried, or retried? Times, Sunday Times
I have heard a temptation to overstress symbolism, or an over-eagerness for closure touted as potential sticking points, and there are moments in this posthumous collection where one feels these may not be wholly invalid criticisms.
The Long Parliament returned the favor by ordering the Second, Third, and Fourth Parts of Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England published posthumously.
Upon his death in 1377, the emperor decided to honor him posthumously by bestowing on him the status of deity in charge of protecting the land.
Both commercial surrogacy and posthumous parenthood require social approval and state assistance.
He was also honoured with a posthumous award for bravery.
His treatise on calendar reform is also lost as is about half of a posthumous compilation of his unpublished writings.

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