reminder of mortality
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The ashes are delivered with a reminder of mortality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Participants, including the pope, had ashes sprinkled on their heads in the customary reminder of mortality during the service in the Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2023
Updating the classical memento mori, a reminder of mortality, the Tennessee artist depicts toys, ornaments and Halloween decorations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
Besides, Capra's movie became a domesticated death's head, its seasonal ubiquity a reminder of mortality.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2010
They built their houses thus, centuries ago, when the bands of buccaneers, indomitable and atrocious, had haunted their conquest with a reminder of mortality and weakness.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
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