Unintelligible Latinisms litter the insides of the booklet, awkwardly coupling with sepulchral imagery. |
You wouldn't think it appropriate in this day and age to describe a voice on a telephone as sepulchral, would you? |
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. |
The figure of Christ, his sepulchral pallor set off by a shroud of tender pink, confronts the viewer with awesome directness. |
In contrast with the long tradition of sepulchral poetry that preceded it, the poem thematizes that eminently modern concept, the nation. |