But it seems pretty clear that the tacit aim is to distract him from an acute and consuming grief.
How - or from where - does she find the consuming grief she needs?
The consuming grief had abated; Mr. Gibson and his wife of 26 years had survived something most parents say is too painful even to consider.
In the months since, the families say, they have faced not just an all-consuming grief, but also anger over what they see as obfuscation and confusion from Lattitude and its official backers over what happened.
Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife, Julie, on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
As to what the Babadook may stand for, take your pick: survivor's guilt, husband's ghost, all-consuming grief, a child possessed, or a mother drained of sleep — almost of the will to live — by that child's unceasing demands.
The family said in a statement: "Whilst we are now in a state of all-consuming grief and miss Jeffrey very much, we also recognise that he is now at peace and away from the fear which surrounded him in the last few weeks of his life.
His family said: "While we are in a state of all-consuming grief and miss Jeffrey very much, we also recognise that he is now at peace and away from the fear which surrounded him in the last few weeks of his life.
The next day, I asked my classmates about the earthquake, desperate to find someone to share in this all-consuming grief.
The Children's Hospital is the combined vision of Westchester Medical Center's governing board, various artists and architects, thousands of fund-raising volunteers -- from schoolchildren to socialites -- and John and Brenda Fereri, a Greenwich couple whose 13-year-old daughter, Maria, died in 1995 and who have turned their personal grief into a consuming passion.
Repertory has become a consuming issue.
