commemorative

Examples of commemoration

commemoration
The utterances are considered inappropriate in contexts of joyful commemoration and reminiscence.
Commemoration of the supposed conspiracy of 1641 raised no contentious or disturbing issues.
From this perspective the biblical passages are appropriated and musically framed to express the human psychology of loss, grief, commemoration and consolation.
Yet multiple meanings and discourses are intrinsic to the workings of commemoration in general.
Although this act of sanctified burial and commemoration relocates the disappeared person within society, it is clearly incompatible with certain constructions of the disappeared.
Is the scene a commemoration of one simultaneous event or of three different events?
These include mourning and commemoration of the victims of violence on both sides.
The city deliberately postponed celebrations in order to deflect energy and finances into the 1913 commemorations.
There is some archaeology associated with all of these sites of commemoration.
If we can raise a million and a half this year at the commemoration activities, it will be okay.
The book is at its best when covering the commemorations of the last hundred years.
Of interest to the historian is the connection with holy sites and liturgical commemorations.
The placement and commemoration of national death, they continue, is central to asser ting these claims.
In this way, the form and focus of commemorations changed from year to year.
The broad scope of commemoration is also notable in two other ways.
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