eternalize

Example Sentences

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According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2015

Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.

From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain

Our desire is to eternalize ourselves, to persist, and we call good everything that conspires to this end and bad everything that tends to lessen or destroy our consciousness.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Oh, to prolong this blissful moment, to sleep, to eternalize oneself in it!

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)