Word: sorrowed
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...richest woman around has been in mourning for her late husband so long that her sorrow has become a career. Her family can't console her; the managers of the conglomerate she heads are afraid to challenge her. Then her death-in-life is changed by a humble--actually, a quite arrogant--horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. She is, again, a woman in love. Gossips derisively call her "Mrs. Brown...
...become the refuge of middle-aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
Because my parents fled in time, I escaped Hitler. To our shared and constant sorrow, millions...
Another colleague tells the congregation that Jonathan believed "no student should get a free ride." He could be playful with them because he took them seriously. That is what touches the depths of their sorrow now. They weep for him and for themselves. Maybe they wonder if he dreamed it all up, if they are in fact as valuable as he found them. These kids are used to disappointment and desertion...
...form of the "Author's Note." Yet by then editors had realized that his fictions were truer to reality than the most dogged reportage and that his letters explaining, at demented length, why he could not produce an article were more telling than the articles themselves. If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m., the pleasure of these letters is that they have all the rude vitality of the man who was not yet a myth...