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It borders on the absurd for the mourner to dance gleefully while his parent lies dead in a fresh grave.
One mourner said her journey through the stages of mourning was like being in a cocoon.
He was the only mourner among the half-dozen without a formal reason for being there.
The introject and the corresponding self-image of the mourner are in a constant and endless relationship.
Participation in these gatherings is simply not consonant with the depression and contrition that the mourner experiences.
A mourner, fallen asleep in a late-night vigil, awakes the next morning to find that not only are his trousers missing, but the corpse has been stolen as well.
The Reverend Jolly's voice was in fact not all that far from Fulton's own, but slowed to a funereal tempo and larded with the lugubriousness of a hired mourner.
The individual mourner can receive a lot of help from work colleagues when they return to work after a death.
The act must be performed by the mourner and cannot be carried out by someone else.
Grief is isolating, dividing the mourner from anyone who has yet to endure grief.
This non-selective identification causes problems because the mourner identifies with both the loved and hated aspects or functions of the lost person or thing.
Once, many years ago, when the Rav was visiting a mourner, the mourner didn't know this Halacha and was curious when the Rav sat silently for the entire visit.
By 1915, mourning attire had begun to draw more attention to the mourner than to the deceased, drawing critics to the practice.
Floral tributes, many of them white roses and daffodils, were placed around a white flag of St George brought by a mourner, with a lone policeman standing guard.
Two church members stood outside the Church, embracing each mourner as they walked to the vigil.
This is a painful, internal phase when the mourner confronts the reality of the loss and gradually absorbs itsĀ  meaning.
His mother was a professional mourner, an essential, traditional part of all funereal vigils and wakes.
The president was the chief mourner at the singer's state funeral.
Many species are given common names pertaining to their voice or food habits or derived from native names: fruiteater, berryeater, mourner, bellbird, chatterer, piha, tityra.
The most characteristic feature of this phase is preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased while the mourner relives his or her relationship with the lost one.
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Examples from Classical Literature
No doubt he made his living as mourner at funerals to which no other mourners came.
It is easy to find a censurer of the sins of the land, but hard to find a true mourner for the sins of the land.
Behind the coach, the mourner, for whom the coach was intended, walking in the dust.
The name is from the Egyptian, as applied to a mourner or a singer at a funeral.
As she screamed she struck down at the mourner with her clenched fist.
But what Gilgamesh is not permitted to hear, the mourner is told.
Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner.
If the mourner have anything dearer than his grief he must seek his true position elsewhere.
Everybody went to little Hans' funeral, as he was so popular, and the Miller was the chief mourner.
Even if he knew him well, his face changed when he saw a mourner.
She had bread for the hungry, clothes for the naked, and comfort for every mourner that came within her reach.
The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
Did ever mourner plead with thee, And thou refuse that mourner's plea?
He felt that his blighted affections were quite dead now, and though he should never cease to be a faithful mourner, there was no occasion to wear his weeds ostentatiously.
As there are no relations at all, Jonathan will have to be chief mourner.
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