Word: griefe
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...characters were exaggerated to stereotypical extremes, but where a few—like worry-stricken Martinius—were glaringly overacted, others were more skilfully caricatured. McEachern, for instance, conveyed the grief and lovesickness of his Prince Roderick with hilarious whimsy, and much of the play exuded a melodramatic mood only appropriate in fairy tales...
...good, they lose their humanity, and we all lose hope. The shooting at Virginia Tech—in all its horror—should remind us why being good to each other is more than a trivial matter. Our fates may be forever cursed to cross the path of grief, anger, hopelessness, and ruin, but our mutual coping can render these evils liveable. When we stop being good to each other, we destroy ourselves, and our time here on earth becomes tragic...
...role of "comforter-in-chief" in the words of aides whose nostalgia for his post-9/11 popularity was a little too evident under the circumstances. But the story turned out not to be about him at all. Instead it was about the contrast between the real, painful grief visible among the relatives of the dead on the campus, and the eerie, slightly confused process of grieving that the rest of the community was going through...
...more so for the contrast with the crowd around them. Here was true, inexpressible grief surrounded by something sincere but much different: a massive auditorium that wanted to express outrage and sadness, but was overwhelmed by neither; 10,000 genuinely distraught but emotionally uncertain young people. The eeriness of the stadium overpowered the scene. There were thousands of kids filling their home team's sports arena looking to mourn but dressed for a ballgame, all while quiet, small agonies were going on in their midst...
...After Columbine, her intense grief lasted at least two months. She couldn't stand to be touched. She only wanted to be with fellow students who had undergone the same experiences. She could think of little else...