It's an abrupt death, but Price describes it with lyrical gentleness.
Equally moving, though, is his clarity, a radical reassessment of priorities that only an abrupt death sentence can provoke.
Picower's abrupt death is yet another tragic twist to the saga surrounding Madoff's record-breaking fraud.
The younger Naipaul's novels and essays were received enthusiastically, with praise and awards, before his abrupt death.
WHEN a 608-pound black bear was struck by a minivan in Warren County two months ago, it was more than an abrupt death for New Jersey's largest recorded bruin.
"We are shocked and saddened by Korey's abrupt death," Stringer's agent, James Gould, said in a statement he released on behalf of the family.
In 2010 Asia Society also had to cope with the abrupt death of its high-profile chairman and cheerleader, Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
They will have to work harder than ever to pierce the curtain — and manage stability on the Korean Peninsula — after the abrupt death of Kim Jong-il, the North Korean dictator, and the ascension of his youngest son, Kim Jong-un.
Without the tug of sex, without the outrage fueled by corruption, without the garishness of violence, without the enrapturing horror of abrupt death, we are, as a nation, engaged.
Not that Ms. Karpatkin, for 16 years Consumer Union's legal counsel before becoming its president in 1974 (a coup tempered by the abrupt death of her husband and law partner, Marvin, a few months later), loses sleep over her detractors.
