Sentence examples for escape grief from inspiring English sources

Madame Ranevskaya, who has spent five years in Paris to escape grief over her young son's death, returns to her home in Russia ridden with debt.

But she could not entirely escape grief and shock: even in the comic worlds of Duncombe and Cranford, death enters suddenly and brutally indeed, Dickens once lamented that he did wish her characters were a bit more steady on their feet.

The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwalladr (Faber, £12.99, 5 Feb) Set in 13th-century England, this tells the story of 17-year-old Sarah's bid to escape grief and sadness by becoming a holy woman – and her realisation that even the walls of her cell cannot keep the outside world at bay.

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Despite the passage of time, it has been impossible for Ms. Sapire to escape her grief.

Performing with the Boomtown Rats helped Geldof to escape the grief of losing his daughter.

Kenneth's mother had died when he was 12, and for him, like Billy Elliot, dancing was his escape from grief, poverty and the grinding reality of everyday life.

Shortly afterwards, she became literary editor of the New Statesman, a job she has implied she was offered partly as an escape from grief.

Ellen and the surviving children returned home to Ohio while Sherman tried to throw himself into his duties as a way to escape his grief, but his letters from this time are filled with terrible self-recrimination.

Maintaining monetary flexibility and independence — while staying away from the wobbly euro and from having to pay billions as a euro-zone member's share in propping up the Greeks (and perhaps other countries too) — could only be seen in Britain nowadays as wisdom and an escape from grief.

To escape their grief, Steve Peifer and his wife agreed to become dorm parents for the children of missionaries at a boarding school in Kenya.