"full of woe" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a somber or depressing atmosphere or when referring to a person's feelings of despair. For example: The dark, empty street was full of woe, a stark reminder of the city's recent misfortune.
Though full of woe at the foreigners' arrival they feared Japanese reprisals the Okinawans were too polite to admit it.
Peter first begs them to play "Heart's ease" and "My heart is full of woe," both well-loved popular tunes.
The departure boards were full of woe for holiday travelers as airlines struggled with de-icing planes, clearing gate areas of snow and staffing ticket counters.
SirSomehow, UNICEF's recent ranking of twenty-one ricountriesntrins in terms of children's wellbeing does not surprise me the least bit (Full of Woe, February 17 , 2007.
In "Pulled," the sour daughter, Wednesday (Krysta Rodriguez) — so named because she's full of woe — sings what is transparent to the eye: "I don't have a sunny disposition / I'm not known for being too amused / My demeanor's locked in one position / See my face?
When, at the finale, Orpheus is in the underworld and can no longer hear the music of the spheres, that small moment of silence is spectacular, full of both woe and wonder.
Yet the language of "Newborn" is latent in this image of decay: the mother's pungent description of a paediatric ward ("strawberry syrup, toasted cheese, pee") has the sort of sensuality only known by those who have changed a nappy, and her metaphor of exhaustion ("just now it is sitting on her lap, arms tight around her neck") is full of the woe of postpartum.
If BMW is going gangbusters in a year that's supposed to be full of economic woe, how bad could things be?
This pass-the-baton pattern has been repeated over the past decade.Newspapers are full of financial woes these days, and there are doubtless more to come.
Porsche With personal finance pages full of the woes of disappointed pensioners, Crombie's own finances have inevitably come under scrutiny.
