obsequies

That knowledge sits uncomfortably with what has come before, not because the leaden language of the scripted obsequies is persuasive, but because the grieving citizens are so real.

I see no spine nor brains in this party of apologists, and obsequies and drooling weaklings.

I can tell you, within hours, how many TV viewers tuned in for the Thatcher obsequies.

Collective memory cannot be battered into adoring someone by official obsequies.

All of these gloomy obsequies of repentance having been observed, Gingrich gave a stirring example of why he is hands-down the best extemporaneous demagogue in contemporary America.