Sentence examples for arouse grief from inspiring English sources

Because the pleasure offered by tragedy and melodrama depends on and is proportionate with their capacity to arouse grief, fear, and other unpleasant passions, Hume uses literature and theater as an occasion to elaborate on his theory of mixed emotions.

A gifted writer, Valdez was also a warmhearted and humorous man, beloved by many of his colleagues, and his killing aroused grief and outrage that seemed unprecedented.

Their grief aroused them, and they made love magnificently.

She is dizzy with grief and desperate for connection and thoroughly aroused by this young man who so resembles her deceased husband, and Bloom pulls us into her experience in a way that is most uncomfortable: we don't want to empathize with this woman's almost monstrously irresponsible behavior, but Bloom is so gifted a writer she leaves us little choice.

Giorgio Armani often catches grief for doing things, well, the Armani way: putting models in silly hats, say, or trying to arouse interest in balloon shorts.

Grief is grief.

Adolescent grief.

But grief?

His grief.

Grief, longing.

Your grief is our grief.