Then, breaking down into tears, she added: "I live with an abiding sense loss and a chunk of my heart is gone.
There is no abiding sense of loss regarding Jane's death, for example - it simply facilitates the plot.
6 Twenty years since the workshop and what I'm left with now is not bitterness or anger but an abiding sense of loss.
"Grief" chronicles the abrasions of experience writ large and small: A husband taken so prematurely from Dorothy that he never knew his own daughter, just one reason why Victoria can't empathize with her mother's abiding sense of loss.
Once again, too, Murakami weaves a well-chosen piece of music – Franz Liszt's deceptively simple Le mal du pays from his Years of Pilgrimage suite – into the story to underscore the abiding sense of loss and melancholy felt by his protagonist.
My abiding preconception that a loss of vision was tantamount to an expulsion from the kind of average night most of us take for granted was shattered.
Chris Guthrie's farm, Blawearie, is surely no Tara, and she's no Scarlett O'Hara, but there are telling parallels between these survivors as they withstand crushing losses, face the horrors of war, and embrace their abiding love of home.
Loss is the abiding theme: lost bets, lost loves, lost light.
Tavern's abiding absence, along with the loss of Windows on the World and the Rainbow Room, "has left a gap in the city scene, changing the feeling of New York for both residents and the tourists who visit," said Mr. Stillman, who lost the 1974 bidding to run Tavern to Warner LeRoy.
