Word: sorrowed
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...this season of departure, with seniors leaving to begin their lives in earnest, our president preparing to step down and the Simpsons riding off into the sunset, sports fans and others alike can take solace in centuries-old wisdom: "Parting is such sweet sorrow...
...slightest cynicism regarding today's media-which is to say, anyone with a pulse and half a brain-regards such reporting with healthy skepticism. We never know how staged and contrived these events really are. But with Nachtwey, our cynicism gives way to empathy, and our skepticism to sorrow. The special place of Nachtwey's photography is the realm beyond the contrived, where even jaded media-hounds cannot escape the pathos. The starvation in the Sudan and in Somalia is impossible to stage, and the subjects are too weak to strike a pose. We see the stick-men dying...
Beowulf may, by modern standards, seem bloodthirsty and deluded, but Heaney's poetry makes eloquently persuasive the hero's tragic stature. And when he dies, his people mourn not just in sorrow but in fear of the enemies who will surely descend on them...
...master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...
...self-taught musician narrates a true story in which his music moved a woman deeply in the tunnels. After noticing that she had let four or five trains pass by, Wright finally stopped and talked to the woman only to discover that the sobbing passenger was in a joyful sorrow--apparently his music had brought back memories of her deceased husband. Wright was equally moved by the fact that "people can be that open." Wright performs for such moments, he explains. "I try to cheer people up, and sometimes I get verbal, telling people to keep a song in their...