"extreme grief" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a strong and intense feeling of sadness or sorrow. Example: After the sudden loss of her husband, Kate was consumed by extreme grief and could hardly bring herself to leave the house.
Extreme joy and extreme grief are locked like the crosshairs.
An Extreme Price To the Sports Editor: Re "Extreme Grief," March 6: I am a musician.
He added: "I hope you find some solace in this time of extreme grief".
"His behaviour when he was with the doctors was consistent with extreme grief when he was at the hospital".
I guess that's the nature of any public space, but when you add in an element of such extreme grief and horror, the parameters shift".
It was a curious call, given she came to the quarter-finals without extreme grief and spent six hours and 23 minutes on court compared with Petkovic's seven hours and 22 minutes.
We had written mainly about her art, which seemed to me a profound and raw expression of the extremes of grief and loss.
First to go is smell, then taste, then hearing, with each loss preceded by a spell of extreme derangement: crippling grief, rabid hunger or violent rage.
At just 34, and in what her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, describes in a foreword to the book as "the extreme stages of grief," Mrs. Kennedy displays a cool self-possession and a sharp, somewhat unforgiving eye.
In the preface, Caroline Kennedy reportedly describes her mother as being in the "extreme stages of grief," and while she probably was — this was only a few months after John F. Kennedy's assassination — Caroline may also have been trying to account for her mother's tone, which is not always kind or even clever.
Newspaper reports at the time marvelled at how children expressed extreme outpourings of grief when their "cyberpet" finally succumbed to that great leveller of all, death.
