Word: sorrowful
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Will there come a day, graduating seniorAnthony Della Calce wonders, when people see him proudly wearing a Virginia Tech cap without immediately thinking of death and sorrow...
...search for meaning ran into the real, raw sense of senselessness. "They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," President George W. Bush said plainly of the students who perished, and parents listening jammed their fists into their eyes and shuddered. There is no sweetness in sorrow, no matter how your child dies--on a battlefield, on a mission or on a Monday morning in German class. But there was something especially awful about meeting these students in the quick cable-news compression of remembrance and mourning. She was a belly dancer, he was a track star...
...Both sides of the gun debate expressed their sorrow over the Virginia Tech killings, but when the political debate begins anew proponents of gun ownership feel they will have the momentum. "I think it's a little early," Hupp said, "but my guess is the public has had enough and will demand changes...
...country rejoices, but when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective sense of shame and burden. So much so that South Korea's Ambassador to the U.S., Lee Tae Shik, pledged to fast for 32 days to show his sorrow today. "I can smell a collective sense of guilt," says Lim Jie-Hyun, a history professor at Hangyang University in Seoul. "There is confusion [in Korea] between individual responsibility and national responsibility...
...Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” The year is 1792 and the Kellaway family has just arrived in London from the village of Piddletrenthide in southwest England. Having recently buried a son, the Kellaway parents hope that the urban milieu will provide a respite from sorrowful memories and crushing rural poverty for their surviving children, 12-year-old Jem and his 14-year-old sister Maisie.Jem’s father finds steady carpentry work at circus impresario Philip Astley’s amphitheater on the outskirts of London. Jem and Maisie, having grown...