memento mori
Example Sentences
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His first book, “Lessons and Carols,” was published in 2023, and his second book, a digital memento mori, is expected in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Not even “Orange Grove Estates” as a memento mori.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
The death trip is a memento mori, that old medieval art tradition, which reminds us that we all die.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2023
At its exit is a photograph from three decades later of another, crumpled pair of glistening red Adidas shorts: a drapery study, a memento mori.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 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
