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Sentence Examples The posthumous engraved editions of Lully's operas reached high levels, and among French songbooks, Laborde's Choix de chansons is outstanding. The fact is Margaret never pretends to coherence despite her desire for posthumous fame. Yet even when Rome's enemies matched the superpower atrocity for atrocity, they were not necessarily forfeiting their chances of posthumous fame. After the artist's decease, his publisher Akiyama Buemon printed posthumous editions of Tsuki Hyakushi as album sets from the original blocks. Fears that a new case had been found in Horton-in-Ribblesdale proved groundless earlier this week when posthumous tests proved negative. Maybe it's the proper term for being awarded a posthumous honorary doctorate. In 1632, two of Shakespeare's fellow actors published the First Folio, a posthumous collection of his works. For other Latinas and Latinos, the bestowal of posthumous citizenship was bitterly ironic. But a campaign to have the men granted posthumous pardons has taken a dramatic turn. Does a posthumous child have some subsequent claim over the estate of its dead father? At the very least the man who earned the posthumous soubriquet Father of the Nation should have known. It may be an invention to discredit his posthumous reputation and supporters. Two Bills are now dealing with matters of posthumous citizenship are before the U.S. House of Representatives. No more so, surely, than his concern for the posthumous publication of his works. A courageous North Yorkshire man who helped catch a criminal on the run from police will tomorrow be honoured with a posthumous award. He did award posthumous medals of honor to the families of several soldiers on 22 April 1971 and on several other occasions. One of the posthumous VCs, with another rifleman, was scouting ahead of a strong fighting patrol. Could it be the posthumous public pronouncements were really only shameless self-serving exaggerations? Both women achieved posthumous fame, but the facts of their deaths are vile. Bolingbroke's many posthumous publications excited intense controversy in the decade which immediately followed his death. Show More Sentences Instead they died in the line of duty and subsequently received posthumous citizenship amidst much fanfare and flag-waving. His treatise on calendar reform is also lost as is about half of a posthumous compilation of his unpublished writings. As he does so, however, he becomes concerned for his posthumous reputation. He was of Border descent, but was born in or near London, the posthumous son of a clergyman. He was the posthumous son of Geoffrey Plantagenet, fourth son of Henry II, by Constance, heiress of the Dukes of Brittany. As the posthumous only son of Geoffrey and Constance of Brittany, Arthur was duke of Brittany from the moment of his birth. Both commercial surrogacy and posthumous parenthood require social approval and state assistance. She bought a house and Elric was born, and passed off as a posthumous child. Matters are complicated by the wife of his brother, who has given birth to Bobby's posthumous son, and added into the equation is their welfare. His posthumous political importance is obvious to any observer of the Indian scene. The family of a First World War soldier executed for cowardice is petitioning the Government for a posthumous pardon. Last year, his widow and his brother pulled 150 of them for posthumous publication, with a plan to release eight to 10 per year. He scored the posthumous Screen Actors Guild nomination, which I think could push him into the Oscars final five. Until this point, author images were generally reserved for religious pamphlets and posthumous poetry collections. It is a cankerous posthumous blot on the career of a very good architect, and her gentle and rather pandering critique of it is quite disappointing. Pushkin is personally present in Russian culture in a way that has no parallel, for instance, in the posthumous lives of Shakespeare, Dante, or Goethe. She's his posthumous enabler, cutting him plenty of slack for his male needs, allowing him to poeticize his libido, making his affair with Wevill an artistic necessity. She was a genius and deserves a posthumous award of some kind. Parliamentarians were concerned about inheritance rights in instances where a dead man's estate or property is dispersed before a posthumous child is born. One was Alexander IV, his posthumous son with a wife named Roxana. Show More Sentences She was born in 1888, a posthumous child, her father dying young. The naval officer did receive a posthumous George Cross for the operation, but due to secrecy he could not receive the United Kingdom's highest award for gallantry. Assuming that James did not really speak to Theodora Bosanquet from beyond the grave, his posthumous dictation presumably came from within her own mind. Printed woodcuts and engravings spread the news of the monster throughout Europe, and as they spread, the monster acquired a new, posthumous, existence. Induction would be a fitting gesture, even now when the honor would be posthumous. It is my contention that Van Eyck's picture is a posthumous representation of Costanza, the only wife of Giovanni di Nicolao of whose existence we find any evidence. Last July in Moscow, Magnitsky was given a posthumous punishment for his effrontery by being put on trial for tax evasion. Records indicate that this subtly rendered but evidently posthumous image bore an inscription on its reverse identifying the subject as Wenceslas of Luxembourg. These questions have haunted the posthumous reputation of Apache warrior Geronimo. For others, however, the reasons for the posthumous fame are more complex. This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography. Between My Father and the King By Janet Frame This posthumous collection is a must-read for Janet Frame fans. Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright. It is in this world that the 'visions' occur, the 'revelations', theophanies of all sort and the posthumous resurrection of the souls. She received a posthumous award for her life of philanthropy. Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts. Louis X left only a daughter, and his posthumous son John I lived only a few days. The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw were subjected to the indignity of posthumous decapitations. A posthumous pardon was not considered appropriate as Alan Turing was properly convicted of what at the time was a criminal offence. The posthumous veneration of Becket made the cathedral a place of pilgrimage. Show More Sentences Their youngest son, John Guille Millais, became a notable naturalist, wildlife artist, and Millais's posthumous biographer. Filmer's theory, owing to a timely posthumous publication, obtained a wide recognition. Two hundred years after Johnson's death, the posthumous diagnosis of Tourette syndrome became widely accepted. Most of Lewis's posthumous work has been edited by his literary executor Walter Hooper. He declined, believing that an author's merit could only be determined by the posthumous verdict of history. The success of the film has also led Winehouse her second posthumous nomination for Best British Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards. By that date Margaret had given birth to James's posthumous son Alexander and married the Earl of Angus. Also, posthumous collections were released for both Pete Ham and Tom Evans. Charles was the third and posthumous son of king Louis the Stammerer by his second wife Adelaide of Paris. His elder brother Geoffrey died during a tournament in 1186, leaving a posthumous son, Arthur, and an elder daughter, Eleanor. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, believes the various posthumous portraits have no historical value. Only two major, modern biographies of Henry have been produced, Warren Hollister's posthumous volume in 2001, and Judith Green's 2006 work. His posthumous adoption by Julius Caesar elevated his plebeian gens Octavia to patrician status. The posthumous Medal of Honor was given to the family of the soldier who died in battle. Artists obscure during their life often receive posthumous recognition, too late for them to enjoy. His memoirs were his posthumous revenge on enemies he dared not take on alive. This is the most final of all posthumous attacks on John Wycliffe, but previous attempts had been made before the Council of Constance. However, the leader was often given a more complex formal posthumous name as well. In imperial China, Confucius was accorded a number of posthumous names and titles. In 1997, the Linnean Society issued a posthumous apology to Potter for the sexism displayed in its handling of her research. Show More Sentences His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person. In Classical mythology, being stellified was about the greatest posthumous honor for a mortal. Lovecraft was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Fleming her son's posthumous Medal of Honor, and the following September the Navy commissioned a destroyer escort named in the deceased pilot's honor. Bernardine Bishop The author has just received a posthumous Costa Award nomi-nation for Unexpected Lessons In Love, which was written 50 years after her last novel. Congress, and representatives of various religions, paid tributes to Chinmoy following his death during a posthumous celebration at the UN headquarters in New York. The PGA also has granted posthumous honorary membership to Louis. Clergy who later testified at the posthumous appellate trial affirmed that she continued to wear male clothing in prison to deter molestation and rape. On the same day, Sergeant Ian McKay of 4 Platoon, B Company, 3 Para died in a grenade attack on an Argentine bunker, which earned him a posthumous Victoria Cross. Jochen Rindt is the only posthumous World Champion, after his points total was not overhauled despite his fatal accident at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix. This apparent miracle led to the steady growth of Cuthbert's posthumous cultus, to the point where he became the most popular saint of Northern England. Royalists dug up Cromwell's corpse and gave it a posthumous execution. Examples from Classical Literature In Doctor Walter's posthumous notes he writes that the curlew sandpiper nested in numbers near his winter quarters. Except for some ovidian Epistles, which he is said to have published as early as 1620, Malleville's own poems were posthumous. It professed to be the posthumous work of Mirabaud, who had been secretary to the Academy. In 1855 Clytemnestra and other Poems appeared, while Marah was a posthumous work. Then followed the Habsburgs, Albert and his posthumous son Ladislas. Higginbotham cared about posthumous renown, his untimely ghost would have exulted in this tumult. This polonaise appears as op. 71 in the collection of posthumous works. Sir William Blackstone was the posthumous son of a silk-mercer. An Irish student was once asked what was meant by posthumous works. Find more words! 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