Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter went out to Archbishop McCarthy, quoting the Living Bible, Proverbs 23:29-32: "Whose heart is filled with anguish and sorrow? Who is always fighting and quarreling? Who is the man with bloodshot eyes and many wounds? It is the one who spends long hours in the taverns, trying out new mixtures. Don't let the sparkle and the smooth taste of strong wine deceive you. For in the end it bites like a poisonous serpent; it stings like an adder." The archbishop responded evenly that Henry's was an experiment, an attempt to provide a wholesome...
...British colony, who had won a scholarship to Oxford and afterward, as an admirable writer, earned much favor in Western eyes. All that those mullahs and ayatullahs seemed to want was to make trouble and pray. Naipaul's report on this journey was written more in anger than sorrow, and the formula that he had earlier used to criticize Argentina (The Return of Eva Perón) or his ancestral homeland (India: A Wounded Civilization) began to seem a trifle predictable: the author regrets to find yet another swatch of the Third World behaving in veddy bad taste...
After a public auction of the bar's equipment, the last night in the club's existence was a complete sellout. A standing-room-only crowd forced many loyal fans to wait outside until late in the night, while those regulars lucky enough to squeeze in drowned their sorrow in alcohol...
...themselves, each of these tales of sorrow might make an interesting topic for a play. Yet the unlikely combination of the three--clumsily intertwined with a less than subtle statement decrying industrial exploitation of the defenseless Indians--causes Angels Fall to lose the impact of its message. By the second act, these self-professed disinterested individuals have become interested enough in one another to begin lecturing them. When Father Dougherty tells the cast, "I think I will preach a sermon tonight," the audiences' worst fears are confirmed...
...millions of airline passengers have discovered to their sorrow, the terms rush hour and gridlock no longer apply only to travel by car. This summer, teeth-grinding, stomach-wrenching waits at major airports have become distressingly common. The aggravation reached a new and irritating high last month, as flight delays increased 276% over a year ago, to 44,372. Nearly one in ten airline trips was more than 15 minutes late...