Word: sorrowings
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...small yellow house standing on a ridge overlooking Murnau, near Munich, speaks by its appearance of suffering and sorrow. The fence sags wearily, and the path leading to the front door last week lay buried under a foot-high pile of dead leaves. Yet the house is famous. It was purchased by the pioneer abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky and his onetime mistress, Gabriele Münter, in 1908. There, at the age of 84, Gabriele Münter still lives, an artist who is steadily gaining fame in her own right as one of the best of the German expressionists...
...even the integrity of the cell is now lost, she noted, as man has invoked science to complete the disruption of nature's organic unity. Disintegration and chaos, disorder and eternal sorrow. We got up from our seats to leave Sanders a little stunned, not quite sure how she had gotten from Fenimore Cooper to the horror...
...they have had a total of five foster children, including three who live with them now. Says Mrs. Cantor of the twins whom they reared for 13 months: "They had come in diapers with clouded minds. They walked out like prince and princess. Our losing them was my great sorrow, but their return to their parents was my great victory...
...love match; Hawkins accepts without disapproval the more credible view that it was a marriage of convenience. The chilling dispassion with which Hawkins could dissect a friend's motives is apparent in his remarks on the widow's death. Johnson, he reports, showed an inconsolable sorrow, and a return to his lifelong severe melancholy; yet, "I have often been inclined to think that if this fondness of Johnson for his wife was not dissembled, it was a lesson that he had learned by rote, and that, when he practiced it, he knew not where to stop till...
...melted away, until only two were left who counted. Writes Catton: "Of all the leaders, two men had the terrible capacity to make men love them and to strike with unrestrained furv-Robert E. Lee and Abraham Lincoln. These two would be followed to the bitterest end, to the sorrow, the glory, and finally the salvation of their common country...