obsequies

That knowledge sits uncomfortably with what has come before, not because the leaden language of the scripted obsequies is persuasive, but because the grieving citizens are so real.

As Trump frothed and raged during the prolonged obsequies for John McCain, while eulogies for the dead senator doubled as excoriations of the president, I cast McCain in the role of the retributive spectre.

I see no spine nor brains in this party of apologists, and obsequies and drooling weaklings.

I can tell you, within hours, how many TV viewers tuned in for the Thatcher obsequies.

Collective memory cannot be battered into adoring someone by official obsequies.