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  1. Apr 7, 2023 · Mortal remains are the dead body of a person, often used in formal contexts. Learn how to use this phrase in sentences with examples from recent news and literature.

  2. Jun 1, 2024 · The Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs explores death in each segment of the anthology, but The Mortal Remains ties it all together.

  3. Aug 14, 2024 · The Coen brothers' Western anthology movie features six stories with different themes and endings, each exploring the harsh realities of life in the Old West. The Mortal Remains is the final chapter, a surreal and haunting tale of death and fate.

  4. Mortal remains is a noun that means the dead body of a person or animal. It is formed by compounding mortal (adj. & adv.) and remain (n.1). See etymology, frequency, and examples from OED.

  5. Mortal Remains is a 2013 mockumentary horror film about a fictional Maryland filmmaker Karl Atticus and his occult-themed movies. The film features interviews, ciphers, and found footage of Atticus's works and his mysterious death.

  6. Nov 14, 2015 · November 14, 2015, 9:30am. Last year, the film Mortal Remains made waves in the horror festival circuit. Shot like a documentary, the movie follows its real-life directors Mark Ricche and...

  7. "[A] sprawling meditation on mortal remains. . . . Laqueur offers an intricate historical narrative about the place the dead occupy in our lives. . . . The Work of the Dead is a methodologically bracing book."—Thomas Meaney, London Review of Books "Laqueur effectively shows that remains of the dead matter long after they decompose . . .

  8. Sep 10, 2019 · “The Mortal Remains” brings it all onto the examining table — three archetypes of the West debate virtue while two angels of death moderate and pause for occasional songs.

  9. The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected ...

  10. The dead are never really gone. In archaeology and the forensic sciences, that’s quite literally true. Though people tend to think that mortal remains quickly turn to nothing, in reality, the ...