Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feel No Sorrow. Sent back to Belgium just before World War II, Gabrielle chafed even more against the restraints of the cloistered life. After her father was machine-gunned to death, she began helping the underground, finally made her successful pleas for release from her vows on the grounds that "obedience without question, obedience without inner murmuring, obedience blind, instantaneous, perfect in its acceptance as Christ practiced it . . . I can no longer...
...more to say it is probably what she says in The Nun's Story: "I'm not leaving the Church-only you, my sisters, and our Holy Rule that I am not strong enough to conform to . . remember this and feel no slight or sorrow...
...Dream. Bette never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan. "What," wonders Bette, "would Thomas Jefferson say to a request like this?" She refuses, and more in sorrow than anger the city council fires...
...rose-filled shanty, feels the first tug of happiness again. Fleeing the flood. Old Repent and Jim take Lovey back to the hilltop cemetery, there assuage her grief with a solemn second funeral for granny in a borrowed tomb. By the time her frantic parents find her, sorrow has thawed Lovey's heart, and love for Jim has helped her to reach again for life. Recognizing that even her parents, though foolish, are fond, Lovey is ready to leave the graveyard for the land of the living...
...eternity rang around them . . . For an age-one lonely, solitary, divine and everlasting moment-the full impact of the terrible destiny of his fellowmen struck Falconer between his eyes ... A love for all his brothers, a pity in all their foolish and vain sacrifices, covered his eyes in sorrow and gladness...