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Epitaph in sentence

14 examples of Epitaph in a sentence

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, "We kept charity overhead low."
A great epitaph for the late Ted Demme, a thrilling film, I just wish it was longer - I could have sat through a three hour cut of this.
The last stand of Cook and Moore.This seminal work from aussie director and music video legend Mulcahy is a fitting epitaph to the disintegrating comedy partnership of Pete and Dud during the recording sessions for what would later become the ad naeseum album.The film is by and large a torrent of swearing, drunken verbal abuse,and generally obnoxious behaviour documented for public consumption.If you are a christian,a woman or a person of high moral value look away now.
"Empire of the Ants" is an interesting epitaph for a genre that has long since passed, but its best possible fate will probably be drunken viewing at your next house party.
The Enoch Powell episode is dated, and as it turns out, fatuous (declaration of interest: some of us are erecting a statue with the epitaph: He was right); same goes for the Rebrick University episode.
Macron’s resounding defeat of the National Front’s Marine Le Pen has led to many an epitaph for France’s major political parties.
And, as they turn their backs on global commitments, refugees, drowning by the boatload in the surrounding sea, provide an epitaph for a bygone era.
At first, her standing with voters – and even many within her own party – sagged, to the point that some began writing her political epitaph.
The most famous epitaph is inscribed at the Kohima War Cemetery: “When you go home, tell them of us and say/For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
In the Cemetery of Pere-Lachaise a gentleman who seemed highly obliging, and even more Liberal in his speech, offered to guide Julien to the tomb of Marshal Ney, from which a wise administration has withheld the honour of an epitaph.
She had a special graveyard made, in which to bury them when they died, and there they lie, about fifty of them, with a tombstone over each, and an epitaph inscribed thereon.
They closed the grave with a heavy stone until a slab was ready which Ambrosio said he meant to have prepared, with an epitaph which was to be to this effect:Beneath the stone before your eyes the body of a lover lies; in life he was a shepherd swain, in death a victim to disdain.
'CHAPTER V.Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,For the Christian riles and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down;And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."
"You draw your line very high, sir.""Yes, sir," said my uncle; "I wish no better epitaph upon my tombstone."