Word: griefs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...speak about her yesterday, said Smith could turn strangers into best friends. They asked that their names not be used because they wanted to make clear the scope of Smith’s impact on those she knew without drawing attention to a single person’s grief...
Right after I returned, we shot the funeral scene, the burial of Sam the Lion, the film's father figure. My own grief lent the sequence an added weight and sorrow. And when I look back, I can see that my passion for Cybill also intensified the film's eroticism...
Sometimes things get even more serious. Elizabeth Powell, 56, a retired nurse, took up the game after her husband died. She made little Sims versions of herself and her husband to help her work through her grief. "I could still be with him psychologically, even though I understood the reality," she says. "To many of us, it is more than just a game. We don't just play The Sims; we express ourselves and our lives with real emotions, situations and interactions." Wright believes that it helps people understand their own lives: "You start to see patterns...
...will break open in Beijing, "the sick heart of this country." Jin's description of the massacre is vivid, short and sorrowful, suffused with the Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity. His clean and lucid sentences contrast effectively with the insanity of soldiers executing unarmed students in the streets. Jian, an accidental protester, is left...
...York visit has been discussed). It is as if a dear friend, who had enthralled and exasperated me, who talked so fast and stayed so long, were suddenly reported absent, or missing, or lost at sea. Would I think of his faults? No, I would enumerate his virtues, in grief and gratitude...