Word: sorrowingly
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...self-destructiveness is ever a thin and shifting one, and Sean Penn, the writer and director of Into the Wild, has obviously poured his generous heart and sympathetic soul into his adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of young man named Chistopher McCandless, who chose (to his sorrow and our discomfort) to walk that line...
...personal experience. One worker revealed how 9/11 changed his career outlook; another talked about how she drew strength from a gay classmate who came out in college. President Shigeru Ota says the presentations are designed to "create a new type of family company [by] sharing life history ... delight, anger, sorrow and pleasure...
There are many ways to remember the dead. It's hard to argue that learning how to defeat real evil, slap aside pretenders and rebuild in the face of abiding sorrow aren't three very good ones...
...have tried them), and ads have touted the drugs for ordinary problems like fatigue, loneliness and sadness. Still, drug companies aren't the (sole) villain in this story. As Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield point out in their incisive new book The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder (Oxford; 287 pages), we now have a "legal drug culture" built around the widely accepted idea that feeling blue is an illness. Horwitz, dean of social and behavioral sciences at Rutgers, and Wakefield, an expert on mental-illness diagnosis at New York University, agree that depression...
...process. But the authors also note that "loss responses are part of our biological heritage." Nonhuman primates separated from sexual partners or peers have physiological responses that correlate with sadness, including higher levels of certain hormones. Human infants express despair to evoke sympathy from others. These sadness responses suggest sorrow is genetic and that it is useful for attracting social support, protecting us from aggressors and teaching us that whatever prompted the sadness--say, getting fired because you were always late to work--is behavior to be avoided. This is a brutal economic approach to the mind, but it makes...