memento mori
Example Sentences
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Kelson’s memento mori, in its way, adds dignity to what is otherwise a sentence to nothingness.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026
Not even “Orange Grove Estates” as a memento mori.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
But Met curator Ian Alteveer has filtered his selection through another of Brown’s long-standing preoccupations: the “intertwined themes of mirroring, still life, memento mori, and vanitas.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
It seems to promise a bald memento mori in the form of a fortune cookie.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2022
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
