Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not share in the connection binding her children; in fact, she barely seems connected to the play. She wafts in and out of the living room like some brittle hostess from a Victorian drawing-room comedy. Her frantic fussiness and deliberate animation are doubtless intended to conceal her sorrow at the loss of her husband, but instead Moya comes across as a callous coquette concerned only with the progress...
Brown's monologue, pivotal, since it relates the dismemberment of Pentheus--which was, wink-wink, the denouement--manages to avoid Joe Friday prosaics. It has of course a blow-by-blow, factual aspect, but Brown illuminates its sorrow and terror...
...needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being critical in such an environment. At the end of the show, Donatella emerged alone and acknowledged the standing ovation with eyes full of tears. Beforehand, she had said she felt both pressure and sorrow. "I'm scared. I miss my brother...I hope he will be proud...
After the funeral some attendees expressed their anger, frustration and sorrow over the events of the last few weeks...
...course, this is partly a tabloid mourning, just as Diana herself had become a tabloid star--almost a fictional star. Since the days of Thomas Hardy at least, people have been moved to passionate sorrow by the death of public personalities they have never met, and who sometimes never existed. No doubt thousands wept over the fate of Tess of the d'Urbervilles when her story appeared week by week in the Graphic in 1890, just as truly as they wept for Diana when they read of her death in the Sun in 1997. They have been deluded into thinking...