Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a battering from the press and from the people: the proper flags were not flying in the proper places at the proper heights; the royals were not attuned to the desires of the "people" for a suitably populist funeral for the "people's princess"; the brief statement of sorrow issued shortly after the family learned of Diana's death was soon forgotten and, if remembered, deemed inadequate. "What is the nation to make of silence and absence at a time of vocal and visible lamentation?" the London Times wondered...
...richest woman around has been in mourning for her late husband so long that her sorrow has become a career. Her family can't console her; the managers of the conglomerate she heads are afraid to challenge her. Then her death-in-life is changed by a humble--actually, a quite arrogant--horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. She is, again, a woman in love. Gossips derisively call her "Mrs. Brown...
...become the refuge of middle-aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...
Because my parents fled in time, I escaped Hitler. To our shared and constant sorrow, millions...
...form of the "Author's Note." Yet by then editors had realized that his fictions were truer to reality than the most dogged reportage and that his letters explaining, at demented length, why he could not produce an article were more telling than the articles themselves. If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m., the pleasure of these letters is that they have all the rude vitality of the man who was not yet a myth...