Exempel på sepulchral

• The semi-chorus sopranos negotiated notes well above the stave with skill and purity, whilst the basses plumbed equally impressive sepulchral, subterranean depths.

• A particularly telling aspect of her argument is the absence of either attention or systematic disregard in later inhabitants' treatment of sepulchral remains (216).

• The theatrical effect of this sepulchral engineering was unparalleled.

• Julian, troubled with insomnia, enters into a mesmeric sleep in a specially constructed sepulchral underground room in the year 1887, a time of social turmoil and unrest.

• Browning's "other embroilments" may well refer therefore to the growing controversy in the 1840s about sepulture and sepulchral style, about the appropriateness or otherwise of ornate tombs and canopies.

• It is completely incomprehensible to others who hear a somewhat disembodied, sepulchral twittering which emanates from the earphones of those machines.

• I apologise also for the sepulchral tone of my voice.

• I had to announce in sepulchral tones the dread words that the law prescribed when a judge sentenced a prisoner to death.

• More than that, they will appear cold, remote, medieval and sepulchral.

• I shall keep a sepulchral silence on that.

• He spoke in sepulchral tones of some of these alterations, and occasionally with bated breath.

• There is no need for him to repeat in sepulchral tones an accusation that we have never made.

• In an atmosphere of sepulchral calm the bathers recline on benches along the walls sweltering in superheated seclusion.

• The distinctive sepulchral chapels arose between 1648 and 1740.

• The sculpture is mainly represented in sepulchral art and decorations of facades.