Sentence examples for embodiment of grief from inspiring English sources

Their great size too, makes them the very embodiment of grief, while the play of their trunks lends sprezzatura.

Here is the iconic embodiment of grief distilled to its essence, all the more powerful because it abstracts an emotion rather than depicts a character experiencing grief.

The composition, considered a musical embodiment of grief, will be performed by the Westchester Philharmonic as part of the county's candlelight ceremony at Kensico Dam Plaza, in Valhalla, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the attacks.

In "Lament," his digest of "Lamentation," he could not play with Graham's profound embodiment of grief except to show off his bare chest inside the solo's famous costume of purple stretch fabric.

Moving to a taped score that combined a speech on civil rights by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with music by Papa Wemba, Ms. Figueroa bent sadly and twisted and gestured defiantly until she became an embodiment of grief, rage and determination.

The collection's title, for instance, makes one think of a scattering of ashes, but not so: the title poem describes the way elephants perform a kind of obsequy for their dead by "hook[ing] up bones with their trunks and chuck[ing] them this way and that way"; the animals' ponderous bulk "makes them the very / embodiment of grief, while the play of their trunks / lends sprezzatura".

Yet as with the others, its plot hinges on a relationship between a parent or grandparent and a young child, an innocent reminder or embodiment of adult grief who may yet offer the means of overcoming it.

If the 20th Century has a stand-out embodiment of funereal chic, it was the 1963 funeral of John F Kennedy, when images of his grieving widow made her an icon of grief.

Rothman's performance is a tragic embodiment of the futility of maintaining control over grief and loss.

A lot of grief.

And what of grief?