Word: grief-stricken
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...obvious objection that grief is a natural response, Dr. Engel retorted that a wound or a burn is a natural response to physical injury, but that does not make the wounded or burned part "normal." Major difference, he indicated, is that a burned patient goes to his doctor to have the burn treated, whereas the grief-stricken patient, if he goes to the doctor at all, may not tell about his grief. He is more likely to complain of physical symptoms. Yet these, Dr. Engel said, may have been touched off by the grief. Even the folklore notion that some...
...court-appointed psychiatrists testified that Amiel showed no traces of mental unbalance, was regarded as a dedicated teacher and a man of serene disposition. The jury apparently took into consideration Amiel's wanly pretty wife, his small daughter, and the fact that his father had just died, grief-stricken at the collapse of Amiel's future, and that his mother was near death. Amiel was sentenced to two years in prison...
...College Education. Each day grief-stricken Little Doll placed fresh flowers on Big Pasquale's grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...
...Adams, grubbing in the archives of the State Department to research his historical work, Marian and her salon had the tonic appeal of the latter-day businessman's double martini before dinner. After Marian's suicide, grief-stricken Henry Adams drastically curtailed his social activities, often spoke of his own death as coinciding with Marian's. Author Samuels believes that Adams oversentimentalized his tragedy, but points out that extravagant mourning was a 19th century fashion-Queen Victoria had the dead Albert's evening clothes laid out daily before dinner; the poet Rossetti buried all his unpublished...
...Little Saint." Wilma Montesi's grief-stricken parents, at first the object of great sympathy, proved to be shifty witnesses. Stubbornly they insisted that Wilma could not possibly have been involved with any man except the young police sergeant she-was engaged to marry. She was a "santarellina" (little saint), sobbed Mamma Montesi. Only under relentless hammering from the judge...