Word: sorrowfully
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...unmoved by the spectacle of poverty and social injustice in a country like El Salvador. Merely by taking up arms against these conditions, the insurgents won a measure of idealistic international sympathy and trust. What the rebels had done in fact was to add murder, terrorism and inestimable sorrow to the miseries...
...erotic or pastoral turn can long allay the great sorrow of Irish history. Sometimes Heaney confronts it head on, as in "Requiem for the Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where "terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon." Even these acrimonious lines have not satisfied some Irish nationalists who criticize him for refusing to write anti-British broadsides. Counters Heaney: "The job of the artist is to make works of art, not to be involved in one cause or another...
SOUND CONFUSING? ridiculous? baffling? The answer is all of the above and then some. The potpourri of a plot includes such juicy little scenes as a gang rape, several heart attacks to which the family responds with admirable aplomb, gay-baiting, and a flatulent family dog named Sorrow. Irving showed much foresight in naming this dog Sorrow. First, so that after the dog dies, is stuffed and falls out of an airplane into the sea, the earnest young narrator can say "Sorrow floats." Later on in the movie this useful beast is at the heart of another equally profound statement...
When the immediate sensation of such bitter sorrow fades, the Crimson will be able to reflect positively on the season as a whole...
...mood that will engulf Briggs Athletic Center after tomorrow night's final regular-season basketball game will reflect a state of pandemonium or profound sorrow...