Word: sorrowful
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...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...
...once, let's have no fatuous rhetoric about "healing." Healing is inappropriate now, and dangerous. There will be time later for the tears of sorrow...
...into mental illness. These details are both incidental and fundamental to the story he tells. Because Franzen knows his characters so well, their stories are full and sympathetic and consistently fun to read about, even if the fun is sometimes in the skilled evocation of someone’s sorrow. The pleasure of simply reading the words that have been written down in a certain order reaches phenomenal levels. If his one sentence descriptions, the flow of his paragraphs and even his individual word choices are not always perfect, they are pretty close to it. They are alive and real...