Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people of San Ysidro are trying to deal with their unspeakable sorrow. Your reference to their city as "seedy" was unnecessarily cruel...
When Enrico Berlinguer died on June 11, Italy reacted with a nationwide outpouring of sorrow that carried the Italian Communist Party to its finest electoral hour: a first-place finish, ahead of the rival Christian Democrats in the voting for the European Parliament. Last week, as the party elders met to elect Berlinguer's successor as Secretary-General, they apparently saw wisdom in continuity: they chose Alessandro Natta, 66, a longtime Berlinguer loyalist...
Even so, the Saudis made it clear that they had fired their missiles more in sorrow than in anger. Said Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S.: "Our sovereignty was violated and we reacted, as we said we would all along, in a defensive manner. We think it is a pity we had to be dragged into this conflict...
...ceremonies were done with crisp military punctilio-which was not the way that Viet Nam went at all. The men in the honor guard wore dress uniforms and skinhead haircuts and composed their young faces into masks of abstracted obedience. Like robots suffering an obscure sorrow, they carried the casket of the new Unknown Soldier, the one from Viet Nam. They laid him to rest last week at Arlington National Cemetery beside those from the two World Wars and Korea...
...reality which never changes. Actress Linda Lavin plays the Mother, a character trapped in an eternal moment of grief. Lavin, who played the title role in the CBS sit-com "Alice," makes her tragedy seem frighteningly real. Her limping movements, quavery voice and a face of pure sorrow bring her character to life...