When a person died, their body was embalmed and perfumed with manoi to help facilitate their journey into the afterlife.
But time and truth will rescue and embalm, while posterity will be enjoying that very liberty for which they would never have hesitated to offer up their lives.
Therefore, it was natural that the old delusion, embalmed in those anomalous privileges, should be carried from the period 1921 to 1949 into the period after 1949.
As our once pre-eminent manufacturing companies fell further behind foreign competition, they were embalmed in ever-higher subsidies.
It relates to the problems faced by the relatives of deceased persons, who have had to be embalmed.
It has been said this evening that the countryside cannot be embalmed and kept as it is.
When politicians lose the confidence of the people in their own country, they can have their rejected policies embalmed for five years.
They might just as well have been embalmed, but they were living when they were not really here.
