| The figure of Christ, his sepulchral pallor set off by a shroud of tender pink, confronts the viewer with awesome directness. |
| Mother and son lie together, sepulchral white sheets covering them, rejoined in a kind of death, and David can finally close his eyes and dream. |
| He speaks in resigned, sepulchral tones, and seems to have a strange affinity toward shadows and corners. |
| A maze of sterile-looking, particle-board cubicles had been erected in the room and the lights dimmed to a sepulchral twilight. |
| You wouldn't think it appropriate in this day and age to describe a voice on a telephone as sepulchral, would you? |
| In contrast with the long tradition of sepulchral poetry that preceded it, the poem thematizes that eminently modern concept, the nation. |
