Sentence examples for burden of joy from inspiring English sources
Gaily sails that cask [in] the angry stream, a burden of joy on the bosom of all this rage.
When he was 14 his family moved to Chicago and his childhood memories with their burden of joy and heartbreak were sealed over, a treasure chest intact, waiting to be re-discovered by the grown writer.
He deftly calculated the emotive impact of his singing across the cycle's duration; midway through, when he sang of his "burden of joy" (in "Pause"), you felt that even the protagonist sensed what was coming, yet pursued cruel love all the same.
"I don't want to hang around demented, incontinent, a burden, incapable of joy.
After a play-group meeting, I am reminded that the joy and burden of raising children is best shared in community.
While a focus of "Motherland" rests on the joy and burden of motherhood, Ms. Vincent asks bigger questions: How do women find their voice in a world where looking, as she writes in her program notes, "untouched by age, injury or pregnancy" is the new norm?
Seneca discusses good deeds and badly performed favors, graceful and ungraceful receiving, the joy or burden of returning favors, as well as gratitude and envy.
In other words, we are fundamentally responsive creatures and our creations are shaped by our responses either to the weight and push of the past, the burdens or joys of the present or the pull and call of the future.
