Sentence examples for grief against from inspiring English sources
"There has been such a great outpouring of grief against it by people in the country and certainly from grassroots supporters and people who work for the party".
At one point in "Subterranean Climbers," a sweet scent of Chartreuse fills the air and the party realizes, with dismay, that their digestif has come to grief against a fissure wall.
Some of the original proponents of tanks, notably the influential British strategist Basil Liddell Hart, now concluded that the defense had become much the stronger form of war and that armoured offensives would come to grief against a properly organized enemy.
After having some fun with the busy-busy ladies in the local Women's Institute, Malliet arranges for the group's imperious leader, Wanda Batton-Smythe ("Nether Monkslip's own warrior queen"), to come to grief against the colorful backdrop of the annual Harvest Fayre.
There are flashes of humour - "an old blonde whose head looked as if it had been left behind in a train" - but above all, How the Dead Live is an extended howl of rage and grief against the certainty of death and the failures of love along the way.
Cancellara had looked set to claim the runner-up spot but he was delayed after overshooting a corner towards the end of the course, almost coming to grief against a barrier, allowing Wiggins to get the better of him by less than five seconds.
But August's relationship with the young women she grows to know and love doesn't wind up harming her; their tight bond arms her against her grief, and against older men's advances for years.
The consistency of their efforts suggests that the neutrality and abstraction of numbering may be a comfort in the fight against oblivion, a refuge against grief and rage and shock.
"Having lost their old solaces," she says, "people shoplift as an anodyne against grief".
Nonetheless, when they meet they begin a passionate affair, an assertion of hope against grief.
"A truly great American family finds the strength in the midst of their grief to speak against racism," she said.
