Artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death.
1Father and I found it useful... a sort of memento mori.
2It made him wonder about those memento mori scans too.
3Her face and body have taken on the skeletal appearance of a memento mori.
4His memento mori was in his bed-chamber, and sat by him at his frugal meal.
5The image of the Her Maj's hurt hand was a particularly dignified and regal memento mori.
6I still have mine boot into the white-on-black teletype screen however, as a computational memento mori.
7The memento mori when I would fain forget.
8Yet, the memento mori-"thesun is cooling.... it is dying!"
9The photo is essentially a memento mori.
10Feuerbach teaches that the memento mori of reason meets us everywhere in the spiritual God's acre of literature.
11The image is a memento mori: those cherries will rot, that paper will be out of date tomorrow.
12It's a memento mori for everything that we make: nothing lasts forever, so we should design for that.
13There is no memento mori more disturbing than fur balls of grey hair accumulating on the barber's poncho.
14This elegantly macabre book is a stimulating memento mori; the grin of the skull on the cover is grimly hilarious.
15Its minimal lines would fit into a MOMA exhibit perfectly, but it's true functionality is closer to that of a memento mori.
16Frightened perhaps to have such a memento mori under her royal eyes, her Majesty had angrily forbidden the young Prince's coming into England.
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