Watching a back-hoe construction vehicle tear down one of the buildings, Hillel Fendel said: "I feel a terrible sorrow.
I have no record of any letter from him bearing on the evening, but when my sister suddenly died a few years later, in 1967, he read the obituary I had written in National Review and wrote to me, "Your beautiful telling of the sad news assuaged the hurt of it, but I feel a great sorrow in my veins.
"For me it's never that — it's heavy, but I don't feel a sense of sorrow.
I feel a deep, unspeakable sorrow for my country after reading about the torture, abuse and brutal murder of two Afghan prisoners of war by our military.
As we watch an intricate cobweb of sticks extending from the branches of a tree crumble under its own weight, it is impossible not to feel a twinge of sorrow over what seems to have been a wasted effort.
With the exception of one willfully oblivious bank executive, the men and women who find themselves gathering for a church service at the play's conclusion all feel a measure of sorrow from the hard compromises life demands — but perhaps also a sense that burdens are lightened when shared.
I hang my head and feel a sense of sorrow so pervasive I gasp, and the dog looks up at me with liquid whiskey eyes full of surprise.
When I look at early-twentieth-century photographs of male friends in loving embraces or positions that would raise eyebrows today (a man sitting on another's lap, or a man with his legs casually draped over his friend's knees) I feel a twinge of sorrow for what we've lost.
Today when I shoot pheasant or dove and a wounded bird falls near my position, I still feel a twinge of sorrow-not enough of a twinge of sorrow to pick up a sign and demonstrate, for I know full well that if it weren't for my 20-gauge, the birds would fall prey to cold weather, to a hawk or a coyote, or even to a poacher's trap.
When I heard the election result, I felt a profound sorrow mixed with rage.
