Sentence examples for abiding sorrow from inspiring English sources

When, in Act I, Sangaride expresses her abiding sorrow — she believes at first that Atys is indifferent to her, "sovereign of his heart" — she sings over a four-note descending bass line recalling Monteverdi's "Lamento della Ninfa".

The murders of Jack and Bobby not only devastated Teddy and left him with an abiding sorrow and loneliness, but they also, on a subconscious level at least, made him fearful for his own life.

How much of his distress was caused by anguish under Manchu rule is impossible to say, but there's no question that an abiding sense of grievance and sorrow propels his art.

"From these conversations it was made abundantly clear those concerned will never countenance the prospect of a so-called peace centre at the very site, where those who inflicted nothing but anguish and sorrow upon the law-abiding majority, were quite rightly incarcerated for their horrific crimes.

Florence will be remembered for her love and knowledge of architecture and art, her life of grace in the face of sorrow, and her deep and abiding faith.

Filled with sorrow at his fate, he endured the passing years with an abiding belief in the unfairness of life.

Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, grief, and sorrow.

It is the complicated, abiding pleasure, to paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, of finding the universal thread that connects us to the rest of humanity, and, by doing so, turns our small, personal sorrows and individual tragedies into art.

"All that sorrow".

"The Cure for Sorrow".

He accepted his sorrow.