Sentence examples for function of grief from inspiring English sources

I suspect that the most important function of grief is in the formation of attachment.

The book, then has double function: a tribute to her and part of grief's ­unending work for him.

That's one of the functions of public grief--it serves as a container for all of us to process our grief.

In the 20th century, when Catholic funeral rites were no longer a shared cultural artifact, such composers as Britten, Penderecki and Ligeti used instead the gesture of the requiem and its function as a public expression of grief to talk about the futility of war and politics rather than one individual death.

Although "The Meursault Investigation" is specifically inspired by the Camus novel, it also functions independently, as a portrait of grief, of a mother and a son coping with the loss of their loved one, their protector, and their economic support.

A lot of grief.

And what of grief?

Two expire of grief.

The consequences of grief.

Aunt Esther dies of grief.

A season of grief.