Sentence examples for devastating grief from inspiring English sources
The problem is hard to isolate, in part because her point is about accusations of wallowing triviality, in part because as she rightly says descriptions of "minor" suffering may be the royal road towards our best insights into larger catastrophes – Virginia Woolf's "On Being Ill", for example, with its amazing slippage from colds and flu to devastating grief.
Taken together, the pieces have a force that feels as elemental as the tides: outpourings of lightness and darkness; simple joy and devastating grief; mother love and daughter love; mother love and daughter rage; the anguish of suffering mothers and daughters powerless to help them -- and the spoken and unspoken weight of missing all the mothers who are gone.
What has struck Mrs. McEneaney, she said, has been "their ability to balance the devastating grief that we're all faced with with the need to take care of our families".
He reported finding "Extreme fear, intense anger and devastating grief".
"The immediate post-death shock is sensitively described, but I did not get a strong sense of the ongoing, devastating, tearing grief and its long aftermath," Susan Hill objected in the Spectator.
In the guise of a horror movie Mr. von Trier has made a wrenching portrait of a marriage devastated by grief.
It would additionally, at a stroke, dramatically cut the numbers of people killed or badly hurt on the roads, saving millions of pounds and – more importantly – reducing the number of lives lost or devastated through grief or grave injury.
His publicist said in a statement that the star was "devastated and grief-stricken".
"Sylvester Stallone is devastated and grief-stricken over the sudden loss of his son," publicist Michelle Bega said in a statement.
It was devastating to witness the grief of their families and to know that my loved ones could one day experience those feelings.
