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Recent Examples of requiemWhether a requiem is due for rom-coms or not, in the meantime there's at least a conveyor belt of cringe to feast upon.—Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025 The funeral procession begins with a sorrowful requiem but transitions into a celebration of life — reminding us that life extends beyond death, that grief is not the absence of love but an extension of it.—Mathew Holloway, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025 Column Plug Two Rollie Pemberton A requiem for Trugoy and a rebirth for De La Soul.—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025 No dolphin will ever perform an autopsy, no dingo will read Heidegger, no macaque will write a requiem for piano and violin.—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for requiem
This map is a lament, but also an attempt to perform a restoration, to imagine the nonviolent future after the war has ended when these institutions can be rebuilt.
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Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
Told through empathetic interviews with his bandmates and family, Struebing’s ordeal becomes a tale of partial redemption and a lament about the failure of our justice system to meet the mental-health needs of people caught up in it.
The film marks his second time grappling with the postmodern author’s ideas on screen, following 2014’s Inherent Vice, a rueful elegy to California counterculture, which was itself the first, and to date only, official adaptation of Pynchon in cinema.
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Rory Doherty,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
This is her elegy, her memorial, her voice, her face.
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