Word: sorrowfulness
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...Your story suggests that we should feel sorry for illegal immigrants who cannot work because they are awaiting trial. It is difficult to feel much sorrow for people who were caught knowingly breaking the law and are now whining about the consequences. Our teenagers can no longer find part-time employment because they must compete with people who have come to the U.S. illegally. I applaud churches' role in caring for those in need, but I also am ashamed of a church that would aid and abet a person who came to America unlawfully and was willing to steal someone...
...weeks ago, when the presidential candidates joined other senators in expressing their sorrow at the news of his brain tumor, they shared a special reason: For the next president to get anything done, Kennedy’s talent at working across party lines is essential and exceptional. McCain, Obama, and Clinton know...
...know about the journey's end. Death will never be pretty--its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. And yet while sorrow is certain, fear is not. "She had a very good death," a friend says of her mother, and I have an idea of what she means and don't hear it as a shrug of denial or contradiction...
Ultimately, it doesn't matter. It's made clear from the start that Chris and Roza's relationship will not last - and their separation resonates with the sorrow of what could have been. That regret keeps Roza in Chris' life, but only as a character in his story. Memories aren't important, Roza once told him. But in the end, they are all he has left...
...McCain administration would be little different from the Bush-led government. The senator skirted a direct answer but later criticized the postwar handling of Iraq. "The problem with Iraq, in my view, is because it was mishandled after the initial success," he said. "That caused great sacrifice, frustration and sorrow...