Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Boston’s athletic misery does not compare to last week’s sorrow. Fans should be thankful for life and loved ones in these grevious days rather than shaking their collective head at athletes, coaches, and owners...
Shelley H. Carson, a lecturer in the psychology department, said the forum provided by the Internet for expressing sentiments of sorrow, sympathy and disbelief can help to foster a sense of community among those struggling to deal with last week’s tragic events...
...angry. I wasn’t angry when the Pentagon was hit, and I wasn’t angry when the two towers fell. I’m still not angry, even as they pull bodies from the rubble and the death toll continues to rise. Sorrow and grief are the only emotions I feel...
Taking the position that patriotism can threaten democracy, Nicholas C. Murphy ’02 wrote, “If we let our sorrow and rage blind us, if we begin to sacrifice those things that bind us together as Americans and perhaps more importantly human beings for the sake of retribution, we have compounded the tragedy one hundred fold, for we have then allowed a few murderous zealots to undo in one day what we have worked almost 250 years to build...
...spiritual needs of our fellow citizens. All of our nation, regardless of proximity to the scenes of disaster, must fight chaos and fear with the steadfast courage of deliberate calm. We must return to our daily lives, not to business as usual, but with a sense of deep sorrow and a consciousness of the losses our fellow Americans have suffered through these tragic events, and with a firm resolve to prevent such a tragedy from ever recurring...