Word: sorrowful
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...surely prevent lasting ruptures. West Germany and the U.S. are staunch NATO allies and major trading partners. More personally, few Jews see Reagan as harboring any traces of anti-Semitism. His credentials as a champion of Israel remain unchallenged. Even his most effective critic, Elie Wiesel, spoke more in sorrow than in anger. It was obvious there was a concern for humanity in what the President was striving to achieve, no matter how awkwardly he went about it. What disturbed Reagan's friends and critics last week was his impulsive public rhetoric and his shaky grasp of history. Some Reagan...
...splendor and sorrow of the week, there was a final bequest spreading through the square as the service came to a close and the crowd, reluctant to leave, chanted one last time, "Giovanni Paolo! Giovanni Paolo!" Five staccato syllables and rhythmic claps, a football cheer for God's great athlete. And then it was over, and people mingled and smiled, and by late afternoon the young pilgrims had turned the Via della Conciliazione that leads away from St. Peter's into a lively promenade. They broke out coolers of soft drinks. They packed the cafés, strolled down...
Daniel Day-Lewis and Rebecca Miller’s first cinematic love-baby, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is far from smooth-skinned and gurgling—beneath the stunning surface is a disturbing whirl of chaos and sorrow...
Born Karol Wojtyla in 1920 in a small Polish town near Krakow, the Pontiff led a difficult and often sorrow-filled life: his mother died when he was eight years old, his elder brother died of scarlet fever a little over three years later, and his father succumbed to the ravages of old age before seeing his son enter the priesthood. He narrowly escaped deportation to Germany during the Second World War, and Communist domination forced him to go to an underground seminary. For a long time, his life seemed destined not for greatness, but rather for anonynimity...
...millennium, John Paul II expressed sorrow for the two historic crimes of Christianity--the use of coercion in defense of the truth and the tradition of contempt for the Jewish people. But this Pope did more than say he was sorry. He put in place new structures of belief and practice, affirming peace and advancing tolerance, changing the Roman Catholic Church forever...