One problem lies in the complex backstories of the characters – Theodore's includes divorced parents, his abusive father marrying a younger woman, his mother feeling bitter and depressed as a consequence; Violet is devastated by guilt and grief after her sister's death in a car crash for which she feels responsible.
No one understands what it feels like to be so hurt by this person, to be devastated by your own grief, and still wish you had the capability to give them everything they want.
She was devastated by Diana's death, a grief compounded by an estrangement caused by a magazine interview she had given, four months earlier, dislosing personal details about her daughter.
As a young, pregnant woman who is devastated by loss and slightly energized by other people's grief, her character is amplified by her shame and complexity.
On Saturday in Los Angeles, "Fruitvale Station" star Michael B. Jordan told a screening audience he was devastated by the ruling and considered skipping the screening out of grief and rage.
Dedicated in life, devastated by death, humans seem to go through the same stages of grief over losing a pet that they might in losing a human, but with a slight twist: the sadness is intensified by guilt when euthanasia is involved, and there might also be embarrassment at not being able to get over it quickly.
I've been devastated by the loss.
Una is clearly devastated by their rejection.
"In fact, I'm devastated by it.
Most profoundly for Rios, the city was devastated by AIDS, and what begins as a series of fairly conventional whodunits deepens into what the novelist Christopher Bram has called "a large-scale moral portrait of one man's life," a character study of grief, despair, and renewal.
