How To Use Grief In A Sentence

Written with charm and humour, this is a touching, absorbing oddity of a book about love, grief, avarice and generosity.
The deep grief and guilt of the mother as well as the hatred and home-sickness of the daughter permeate the story and eventually melt away due to the abiding family love.
As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
It might have been her outpouring of love and grief, it might have been her courage in driving away the wild animals, the length of her lonely vigil on the mountain, or a combination of these.
Despite her measured tone, June is clearly enraged as well as grief stricken. The Sun

She was prostrate with grief after her son's death.
My mind went blank with grief and despair.
She was overcome with grief when her husband died.
Youth holds no society with grief. Euripides
She seemed to be wallowing in her grief, instead of trying to recover from the disaster.
The wife wept out her grief to her husband.
In a strange way she seemed ennobled by the grief she had experienced.
Vasudeva said," Do not, O tiger among men, indulge in such grief that emaciates thy body. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
Sandra helped us deal with the grief and anger we felt over Patrick's death.
She put on a histrionic display of grief at her ex-husband's funeral.
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. Nicholas Sparks
The queen was grief-stricken at his death.
The purpose of this (to us) strange ritual was to externalise one's grief, delegate it onto a kind of exterior apparatus (ie another human being).
Words could not describe the grief felt by the small but united community of Nurney.
An external source of reference is often helpful when a whole family feels itself "lost" in grief in this way. Know Your Own Mind
Grief is a powerful feeling, bereavement is as natural a life process as the passing of the seasons. Times, Sunday Times
But the great-hearted Odysseus he found not within; for he sat weeping on the shore, racking his soul with tears and groans and griefs, and he would look over the unresting sea, shedding tears.
Newspaper editors are being urged not to intrude on/into the grief of the families of missing servicemen.
He was crazed with grief after the death of his mother.
She seemed to be wallowing in her grief, instead of trying to recover from the disaster.
The themes of separation and helplessness are probably objectifications of his own grief over the loss of his wife.
This House of Grief uses a murder trial to draw a portrait of a family. Times, Sunday Times
We are all subject to the pain of loss, grief, sadness and even plain disappointment.
Is a party more aggrieved by the fact that their grief, loss and suffering is televised around the world?
All parents who have lost children at any age or in any circumstances and who feel the pain of loss and grief are welcome to attend.
The writing maintains the suspensefulness that has pervaded this book since #26, and I’m really enjoying the character work Bucky’s targetless rage, Tony’s grief clouding his much-vaunted predictive mind, Sharon’s horror at being controlled as well as Epting & Mike Perkins art. Captain America #30 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Flemings, and plans of bitter enmity against them; and the sight of his murdered father, with that look and tone of the old Dane, fired his spirit, and breaking from his trance of silent awe and grief, he exclaimed, "I see it, and dearly shall the traitor Fleming abye it! The Little Duke
He who talks much of his happiness summons grief.
The sudden death of her mother's caused her grief.
The poem will be etched in the memorial stone - a tangible acknowledgement of the loss of life and accompanying grief, says Appleton.
Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
And if you gave them any grief at all, they said they would just kick her out.
My emotions manage to squeeze a few tears past the imposed strictures of my society, but most of my grief only pounds wrathfully against generations of parents telling sons that ‘big boys don't cry.’
If it doesn't, we wind up like Fitzgerald, lost in a lost city, besotted by booze and benumbed by grief. Judith Acosta: The Necessary Death of Romance
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, in proving foresight may be vain; the best-laid schemes o 'mice an' men gang aft agley, an 'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy. Roy M. Pitkin: Happy Birthday, Robert Burns
Her death was a real grief.
Nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief.
unspoken grief
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
It doesn't hurt that I wore it when I was a "tweenager" and I vividly remember it as a part of my grief when I lost my first dog. Floating Like a Vapor On the Soft Summer Air: La Haie Fleurie du Hameau
And the ephemeride, that dies an instant after its birth, do you suppose that it dies of grief? Willis the Pilot
Afterwards he talked to the young man's grief-stricken father.
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
wild with grief
His addiction to drugs caused his family much grief.
It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind. Gods and Fighting Men
After the grief came boiling anger. Times, Sunday Times
Their faces were pinched with grief.
These holiday season signs seem eerily out of place in this grief-stricken city.
The centre now offers a group program dealing with grief and loss as well as training for men wishing to be involved in community work.
As no other person, She had the same feelings as Christ, unmurmuringly bearing the grief of a mother when She saw Her Son persecuted and suffering.
It is poverty and lack of education that cause the grief. Times, Sunday Times
To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself. The Christian Home
Grief, loneliness, poor health, financial worries, social deprivation all contribute to a feeling of acute depression.
The four friends sat in the room for some time, speechless with grief.
The calm voice waited on the tapes, and my grief was ambiguous.
It's a mistake to talk about being full of grief, as if grief were a tumour, or a full stomach, or something oedematous. Archive 2007-03-01
My wife Mary returned to Honolulu with Miki to help with all the arrangements and to offer some surcease from the grief.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Deep was the grief of the brethren of Three Fountains when they were summoned to attend the sacred office of demission which was to shut out A Child's Book of Saints
Those who make a living convincing audiences that they speak to the dead are examples of what I call grief trade workers. In Defense Of Trust
Their mickle honors lay there low in death; the courtiers all had grief and drearihead. The Nibelungenlied
Despite her grief, she found a hidden strength within herself.
—In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
I equate "bon sang!", which my grandmother was ever-so-fond of using, as in, "mais bon sang, aie un peu d'idée!" with "good grief! Bon sang - French Word-A-Day
No fellow human being could be surprised, wrote Edward to King Alfonso as one father to another, if we were inwardly desolated by the sting of this bitter grief, for we are human, too.
And then there's losing a child, which, by all accounts, is so horrendous that what we know as grief barely applies. Latest stories
The music carried grief, the sea, voices speaking assuredly of whakapapa.
It seems that the same happens with grief although there will always be exceptions and often sudden flashbacks. Times, Sunday Times
She told about a woman in her grief counseling group, who was also sorrowing over the loss of a child.
The intense grief wells up again at Noa's gravesite.
As to his reference to rugby league, I plead ignorance and will not interfere with private griefs.
In doing so they will not only be dealing with grief and loss, but also rethinking their own daily living arrangements.
Women responded especially strongly to this soulful portrait of grief, self-abnegation and recovery. Times, Sunday Times
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. The Two Trees
This allows grief to complete its cycle. Christianity Today
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. Terri Guillemets
Cave honors his own definition with songs that truly "resonate with the susurration of sorrow, tintinnabulation of grief" like "Straight to You", "Nobody's Baby Now", and the slayer "Into My Arms". Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain
The passing of a father is always a cause for deep grief.
But it is no longer the salient quality of the story, which is full of doubt and grief. Times, Sunday Times
The bad part of grief is that it, like death, lasts forever.
Good grief, it makes Switzerland look untidy. Times, Sunday Times
The narrative does not slacken with the news of Daniel's death and the widow's hopeless grief.
If he is a griefer, take his units away and kick him back to observer status where he can beg to play again.
How could we broach such a subject so early in their grief? Christianity Today
Sinbad, along with singer Sheryl Crow, was on that 1996 trip to Bosnia that Clinton has described as a harrowing international experience that makes her tested and ready to answer a 3 a.m. phone call at the White House on day one, a claim for which she's taking much grief on the campaign trail. Not So Fast, Says Sinbad - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
The grief of the parents of this poor girl has been terrible.
He was devastated by his grief when his son died
Overweight, overtired and overwrought with grief, Duncan presented an excessively undisciplined body.
As we have seen, emotionally autumn is a time to be aware of and release our sadness and grief.
Their apparent grief turned to crazy laughter in a minute.
For surely to eat and drink one's fill from day to day and give oneself no grief at all, this is the king of gods for your wise man, but lawgivers go hang, chequering, as they do, the life of man! The Cyclops
He would immortalize Jack and vindicate himself from his culpable grief by becoming what Jack would have been.
Therefore, others frustrated, frustration, grief, should not gloat, but should be caring, understanding feelings.
- While I was still under the almost first impression of grief for the loss of my dear and honoured father I received a letter from Windsor Castle, written by Madame Beckersdorff, at the command of her majesty, to desire I would take the necessary measures for being presented to son altesse royale Madame The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3
This often overlies a well of grief, and if unmourned, it simmers, at times boiling over and burning all those in close proximity. Wild Feminine
But it is no longer the salient quality of the story, which is full of doubt and grief. Times, Sunday Times
Those displays of grief also happen to be insincere.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. George Eliot
No inquiry can bring them back, but this one was at least an opportunity to answer vital questions and assuage grief with clarity. Times, Sunday Times
Her grief was still raw and he did not know how to help her.
Traditional models define successful mourning in terms of detachment from the loved one who has died; the ability to cut the strings of grief, and to step into the roles of mothers and fathers vacated by the dead. 2009 March 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
Pain, grief, imprisonment and even tawdry death have been just a few of the unsought remunerations accorded to them.
Julie was prostrate with grief after her father's death.
Now lieth he in his halls forspent with grievous age, but other griefs are mine. The Iliad
With the way she had carried on smiling, stifling the grief, putting on her brave face to the world?
I hope you can find a little comfort in the knowledge that your grief is shared by so many friends who are thinking of you.
It's a strange thing to say about somewhere that brought me so much pain and grief and caused my family so much angst. The Sun
His was a tall, slender, well-knit figure, and Grief, studying him, estimated his character from his face. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
He who talks much of his happiness summons grief.
She felt no grief, but a dull anger thudded like a drum in her temple.
She was out of her mind with grief.
He's given a fine and believable portrayal of grief and anguish.
Though there is some element of what Pauline Kael described as mopey, post-war German seriousness, perhaps now the film seems somewhat removed from that overwhelming post-war grief. WINGS OF DESIRE Criterion Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
In these post-tsunami times, with nonstop images of tiny outstretched hands and grief-stricken eyes on the television, most of us feel a yearning to do something to help.
Grief often treads upon the heels of pleasure.
I must weave a veil of dazzling falsehood to hide my grief from vulgar eyes, smoothe my brow, and paint my lips in deceitful smiles -- even in solitude I dare not think how lost I am, lest I become insane and rave. I.9
Mr Cash said, Jack has sought love to overcome his grief at the loss of Jade, and while in remand has had a whirlwind courtship with his new love, his cellmate armed robber 'Reamer' McGee on C Block. Archive 2009-04-01
Plus, after marching through the KÃ¼bler-Ross stages of bad-review grief from "future generations will recognize my genius!" to "they're just jealous!" to sulky acceptance, we can console ourselves with the belief that professional critics bring to their work some instinctual empathy for the artists under review -- an understanding of the passion and elbow grease that go into any sustained work of creativity, no matter the quality of the final product. Ben H. Winters: Why I Give Everything Five Stars
The intensity of the work left little room for personal grief or anxiety.
There is ample evidence to suggest that the young as well the more mature will experience grief after loss. Why am I Afraid to Grieve
Families mourned for periods of up to one year, with some family members expressing grief by blackening their faces, chests, and hands with charcoal and maintaining an unkempt appearance.
It is easy to imagine the fear and rage and grief of the combatants, harder to see it in the cool press briefings of the leaders who make war and the often mute suffering of the populations who must endure and support it.
It is perhaps sad that so many families fragment in times of grief instead of finding strength together. Know Your Own Mind
This is fine for dealing with people who have heavily cathected their avatars -- a sanction against the avatar will act as a deterrent -- but many of the griefers and other more sociopathic problem characters will not be deterred. The inevitability of voice
The couple's only comfort in their grief is that other teenagers may now think twice before getting into a stolen car.
We all react to grief in different ways. Times, Sunday Times
No one was more grief-stricken by Lincoln's assassination than Stanton, who spoke the imperishable words as the president breathed his last: ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’
Robert Frost insisted that poetry be made up of griefs, not grievances.
The wife wept out her grief to her husband.
He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently.
The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
It is very doubtful whether, to an untried or a young man, the warnings of Solomon, or the outpourings of that griefful prophet whose name now passes for a lamentation, have done much good. Brave Men and Women
He said the public grief and that of the bereaved families has been enormous.
Of the remaining words on the Telegraph list, some (such as freegan, griefer, and nonversation) have their own entries in Merriam-Webster's Languagehat.com
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Alexandre Dumas
I felt as though I was intruding on their private grief.
Business development managers also interview heads of functional areas within eBay to discover what aspects of past deals gave them grief.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Samuel Johnson
The grief is great for the Krentz family and their many friends throughout Southeast Arizona; Krentzes have been ranching in Cochise County for more than a century. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Illegal Immigration and the Rule of Law
The grief was intense, was really sharp, but the joy was like a high soprano voice rising above the choir. Times, Sunday Times
No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. The sun comes right back up the next day.
On another hand, it's a wakeup call to believers who sit by while unimaginable evils occur in the name of Jesus and say nothing other besides defensively whining that "all Christians aren't like that," or that the person reacting in grief and outrage is simply "persecuting Christians" because he's a "nonbeliever" (whether he's a nonbeliever or not.) Michael Rowe: Why Anne Rice Has Never Been More of a Christian
By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 7
Grief fell from our hearts
Therefore, others frustrated, frustration, grief, should not gloat, but should be caring, understanding feelings.
She bucks two trends that have come to annoy me in current fiction -- jumping around with the timeline to seem arty while really just making the reader struggle to keep things straight and what I dubbed "grief porn" in an essay last summer -- the kind of emotional manipulation that employs tragedy to keep women readers in particular sucked in. Nancy Doyle Palmer: This Summer's Perfect State of Wonder
The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.
Her quicksilver changes of intent, complex multiple qualities, polyrhythms, and opposing body parts warred with Anderson's weeping strings to create a moving picture of grief.
I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt? Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me. Chapter 7
It was almost uncontrollable grief. Times, Sunday Times
Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the Uncle Toby was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed. A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL
A great grief has fallen upon the kingdom and there is deep apprehension for the future.
“Let me not,” said he, “waste my compassion upon nothing; compassion is with me no effusion of affectation; tell me, then, if thou deservest it, or if thy misfortunes are imaginary, and thy grief is factitious?” Cecilia
She threw her arms around him in wordless grief.
Several times filling and emptying his lungs in diver fashion, Grief turned over and went down through the water. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
He found a remedy for his grief in constant hard work.
So, what we end up at is a determina that Hamlet should "throw to earth/This unprevailing woe," that he should abjure his own grief. Modality and Hamlet
The only cure for grief is action.
Children can feel real grief at the loss of a pet.
When a serac unexpectedly falls and instantly kills a climber, we are not fascinated, only touched by grief.
For example, in "Winter's Tale" his account of the death of the boy Mamillius is evidently a reflex of his own emotion when he lost his son, Hamnet, an emotion which at the time he pictured deathlessly in Arthur and the grief of the Queen-mother Constance. The Man Shakespeare
After her mother died, she abandoned herself to grief.
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end.
The acute sense of grief and despondency led to a deep depression of spirits that might ordinarily be expected to break the will and deflate any inspirational talent.
The victim's grief-stricken aunt said other teenagers should take heed of the accident and not treat trial bikes as toys.
Doesn't this invalidate people that are feeling other things such as grief, sadness, loss, anger right now?
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This day provides an opportunity to acknowledge grief and sorrow, and to teach why Christians use a cross as a symbol.
Friendship multiplies joys and divides griefs.
The maid of the house with her face upon her folded arms, as she stood leaning against the wainscot, more audibly exprest her grief than any of the others. Clarissa Harlowe
She would not have wanted us to wallow in grief. The Sun
It was not until l got home l thought … Oh you pratt no wonder l got a funny look .. pigs/police oh good grief!! Purple Pain « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Suppression of feelings such as anger, disappointment, grief, anxiety, or even excitement, can lead them to binge.
Once I could shed tears — now my brain burns to madness, and the soothing stillicide of unutterable grief no longer washes my haggard cheeks. Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
Others, unable to bear the grief, swore to remain in their homeland and rebuild it to its former glory.
Just as the throbbing in my ankle was beginning to cause me grief, the disappointment of defeat was sinking in. The Sun
Ironically, the one transformational issue that has caused him the most grief is the banning of fox hunting, something that has been on the wish list of the hardiest Labourites in Britain for decades.
You should be careful of people's deeply felt grief and sense of loss before you dismiss them as selfish cynics.
she was exhausted by her misery and grief
There is some unspoken protocol against intruding on a stranger's grief, but I could not help myself from gently tapping on her shoulder and asking if she was okay.
The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
Her husband died last year and she finds solace for her grief in her gardens and work with plants.
According to one bereavement counsellor, humour is often used by clients as a way of dealing with grief.
They have been racked with grief since she died last Tuesday.
Life is bleak without love: perhaps that means life is bleak without grief. Times, Sunday Times
For months he was prostrated with grief.
Forced together in cramped and uncomfortable evacuation centres, there was little of the visible despair and grief which one would expect. Times, Sunday Times
best grief is tongueless
Life imprisonment will seem to many a mild sentence, and will do little to assuage years of grief. Times, Sunday Times
Meantime, the young man's life is blighted, his name dishonoured, his family plunged into unspeakable grief. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
She would not have wanted us to wallow in grief. The Sun
Chocolate brown eyes had been coloured sable with grief and longing, and that added to the visible exhaustion of what could only be more than a week's worth of sleeplessness…

How To Use Grief In A Sentence

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