She made a ravishing corpse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
She died praying that she might die.
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
She ne'er was really charming till she died.
She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.