The phrase "big grief" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a feeling of extreme sadness or distress. Example sentence: After the death of her beloved cat, she felt a big grief like no other.
Like the best children's tales, it broaches big subjects (death, grief, memory) through far-flung fantasy, which makes for a visual box of treats, from samurai beetles to giant rock skeletons to flocks of origami birds.
Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd got a big dose of grief Tuesday when he announced the computer and printer company has agreed to pay $13.9 billion for technology consulting firm Electronic Data Systems.
It feels deliberate, every line, shot, and image building towards something big and, like grief itself, impossibly ominous.
We see a big outpouring of grief when a celebrity or public figure dies especially on social media sites.
In the end, the biggest question about grief is whether it will ever go away.
Like all landlords, large and small, I soon found that in any apartment house, plumbing is by far the biggest source of grief.
In a nod to the traumatized Nick Adams of "Big Two-Hearted River," this grief-clobbered man grows grateful for nature's asylum, for the Pere Marquette as "his church and chapel".
As an extended episode that more than lives up to its title, 'Conquer' delivers a powerful conclusion to a season of big questions and continued grief.
It is obviously written with serious intent, both literary and thematically: she tackles the big ones – love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood – head on, without resorting, as other comedians might, to the deflationary, distancing joke.
The first contained a coded acknowledgement of her grief, a "big black wave" that threatened the young Bishop, and the second bade farewell to Soares in its closing lines, when the repatriated Robinson Crusoe recalls the loss of "Friday, my dear Friday," who "died of measles / seventeen years ago come March".
