All of those people in black suits, bridesmaids, the cortege with its almost comic realism, might compromise the powerful effect of the preceding scene.
Sarabande et cortege reveals the melodious possibilities of each instrument combined with the varied sonorities of tessitura.
For elderly people to have to watch corteges proceed on their stately way could hardly drive home an unwelcome point more tellingly.
A number of those in the funeral cortege immediately set upon the car with the obvious intention of pulling out the two occupants.
Of course, if a sufficient number of police officers or soldiers are available, the funeral cortege can be protected.
The authorities dilly-dallied over giving another young man personal protection, and we followed his funeral cortege to the grave.
It is used in conjunction with other police powers to require funeral corteges to follow a specific route and to travel directly to a cemetery.
The cortege could not leave the family home, and had to be organised from the hospital direct to the cemetery.
