Ms. Harris carries Appalachian simplicity into less certain times when sorrow is guaranteed but redemption is not.
My dad has waged a lifelong campaign against licking batter from the mixing bowl: he sees sorrow, salmonella and certain death in every drop of uncooked egg.
We're out of touch with artists in the Heartland, Bible Belt, Four Corners, Dakotas, and even the Pacific Northwest, but certain they are present, turning sorrows and desires into glorious manifestations of identity, truth, and liberty.
"A cosmic crisis was thus averted," Alexander writes, "but the price, to Thetis' eternal sorrow, would be the certain, untimely death of her short-lived son, Achilles".
The destruction wrought by Sandy is a real event, and it demands a certain type of response: pity, relief, sorrow, whatever you must, but above all, the extension of the helping hand.
Remorse strikes a stronger, more moralised note, but for that very reason one should be careful not to confuse it with various feelings of discomfort, regret or sorrow for having to do certain things.
The miser imagines there's a certain sum to fill his heart,But for sorrow there's no remedy.It requires what it cannot hope.We've known each other, earth, a long time.
This is invariably said more in sorrow than in anger, and with a certain judiciousness, as if Lazar were the final arbiter in the matter.
Overheard in the Grosvenor Bar, on lower Fifth Avenue, a feminine voice lifted more in anger than in sorrow: "That was one marriage I was certain would last.
