Sentence examples for despite grief from inspiring English sources

Otherwise his path through the potential complexities of their relationship is straightforward, and despite grief, heroism and armed incursion, without much surprise.

Despite grief, ageing hands and eventually failing eyesight, she invented a new method for creating her flower "mosaicks": collaging layers of cut, painted paper onto a dense black background, matching her materials to the papery fineness of a flower's petal.

But she and her sister, Lisa Klinghoffer, 50, an artist, said they had forced themselves to go on with their lives despite grief and bitterness over their father's fate.

His poems are filled with a sense of wonder at existence and with his surprise at finding happiness – despite grief, struggle and alienation – in a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings.

Now they soldiered on: despite this incalculable loss, despite their grief, and despite the fact that the the Poor People's March turned out to be a logistical nightmare.

Over the next weeks and months, Gertrude becomes lush and pink with the baby, and, despite her shame, despite her grief over the loss of Thomas, she has bursts of happiness that last longer and longer as her belly grows.

Despite her grief, Bridget has kept up grades, he said.

People here, despite their grief, were not angry.

The American people, despite their grief and anger, have been patient as they waited for action.

Despite his grief, Thomson made an appearance at the HBO screening, as he had promised he would.

On the evening of Sept. 11 last year, the group agreed to meet despite their grief over the terrorist attacks.