Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hammering yet again at the message of peace and reconciliation he had carried throughout Britain. He prayed for "the peace of Christ upon all victims of both sides," asking his hearers to think "once again about the absurd and always unjust phenomenon of war, whose scenario of death and sorrow could be averted through the means of the negotiating table." He observed that "we are not facing terrifying spectacles such as those of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but each time that we risk man's life, we trigger mechanisms that lead to such catastrophes...
Washington could also take heart from the fact that official Latin American criticism was not unanimous and was frequently delivered more in sorrow than in anger. Although most countries in Central and South America recognize Argentina's claim to sovereignty over the Falklands, many viewed Argentina as the aggressor last April. Mexican officials conceded that, in the words of one diplomat, U.S. support for Britain was "easily predicted from the beginning." The trouble was, he added, that "the U.S. has no friends, no allies in Latin America, only interests. And those interests are often not in the best interest...
...when I lived in Israel last year. It was all the more heartening, therefore, to hear someone like my adopted kibbutz mother-a woman who lost her husband in the Yom Kippur War-stand firmly by her belief in compromise with the Palestinians. She had realized, in overcoming her sorrow, that to obtain peace, fear and rejection must be surmounted. Only in this way will her children be spared the effects of yet another...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin immediately issued a statement expressing sorrow "over the terrible sacrilege and loss of life." And Israel's two chief rabbis proclaimed that Goodman had "cut himself off from the Jewish people...
...with Osius. At one point towards the end of the play, when More is in jail condemned to death, the wife and daughter come to say their last farewell. In their final moments together, the three embrace. They almost freeze, creating a virtual tableau. We feel the women's sorrow and pain at their distance from More yet we don't feel he is all there...