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11 The image is a memento mori : those cherries will rot, that paper will be out of date tomorrow.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