memento mori
Example Sentences
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It is a chronicle, an accounting, a memento mori.
From Salon • Nov. 11, 2025
Not even “Orange Grove Estates” as a memento mori.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
But Met curator Ian Alteveer has filtered his selection through another of Brown’s long-standing preoccupations: the “intertwined themes of mirroring, still life, memento mori, and vanitas.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
The death trip is a memento mori, that old medieval art tradition, which reminds us that we all die.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2023
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
