The phrase "act of grief" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific action or behavior that expresses sorrow or mourning in response to a loss.
Example: "The act of grief was evident as she stood by the gravesite, tears streaming down her face."
Alternatives: "expression of sorrow" or "gesture of mourning."
I still have no idea — after a decade of wondering — whether I am furious at the woman and the way she ate chocolate cake, or whether it was one of the most audacious acts of grief I've seen in a long, long time.
I still have no idea after a decade of wondering whether I am furious at the woman and the way she ate chocolate cake, or whether it was one of the most audacious acts of grief I've seen in a long, long time.
In a performance of unforgiving intensity, Manze transformed the partita into a five-act monodrama of grief, in which the turn toward D major halfway through sounded like a failed attempt to smile through tears (big double-stopped chords came haltingly and effortfully) and the last statement of the theme became an X-ray of a spent and vacant heart.
They were mourning and distraught; one might wish that they realized more fully that the city and its mayor were mourning with them, but it was the sort of act of shocked grief that can be forgiven the next day.
One could imagine that executives were eager to act, in anticipation of grief, market upheaval, and skeptical press.
"Yet in order to do almost anything, you have to act against the gravity of grief.
But it's also proof that the government needs to continue to act on our memories of grief, rather than waiting for it to be refreshed by a new tragedy.
We seek to create "opportunity" in the immediate aftershock of grief and act as if doing so will make everything better.
This is where the director Rupert Goold has opened his Headlong Theatre production of "Decade," a mosaic of responses to that September morning that acts as a textual tapestry of grief, rage and compassion — and as first-rate theater, too.
