Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That next spring vacation he'd sorrow, that he too would cry against heaven...
Made pity out of sorrow, and of pity...
...Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature comes almost immediately to the mind. In essential feeling the two have much in common, but Sudermann introduces far less of the morbidly exotic,--plays less in the weird nooks and crannies of human misery and sorrow, and bases his tragedy more entirely on conflicts of standards and temperaments...
...corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have lice or warts, to horselaugh right in somebody's face, to have sooty feet. Never was a book more bubbling with conversation. Joy and sorrow, large matters and small are discussed with that vast volubility of people whose social life is instinctive, unintellectual. On and on the voices flow, never tiresome, liquid, direct, humorous, full of "yunnuh" (you), "enty" (isn't that so?), 'sho'," "Jedus." A three-dimensional talking cinema could reproduce...
...devout brought votive offerings, often silver and gold models of the man or the part of his body saved through the intervention of Mary.§ Those most devout reported that they had seen miracles, seen blood flowing from the statues of the Virgin, seen her eyes weeping in sorrow, seen her head lower or her hand raise in benediction. Over all Europe good Catholics lifted up their voices in "Ave Marias" as they counted out their prayers on well-worn rosaries...