But all those complaints got him was grief, at first, then a threat from a fellow officer who said he would beat him, Sergeant Miranda said.
She was, of course, beset by shocked grief at first, but then proceeded to mourn and honor their lost lives without bitter protest.
Leah's story, of a mother's grief, seems at first stereotypical, but becomes more interesting as we realise how many secrets she is withholding from the world.
Five horses came to grief at the first fence in the three-mile-five-furlong contest, and a number of others failed to finish.
"Grief," he says, "seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists".
I thought about the different incarnations of my grief over the years: At first, New York was a place I'd never visited, Liz's home and the city where we lost her.
The platforms' sudden action in response to an outpouring of public grief and rage resembles, at first glance, a moral awakening and suggests a mounting sense of responsibility to the body politic.
The film opens with the Vuillard patriarch, Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon), announcing that he "felt no grief" at losing his first-born son, Joseph, who died at 6 of lymphoma.
In his version of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, the Mother's operatic high intensity, all swooning and grief-torn, coloratura wails, at first elicited sniggers from the audience and bafflement from the hapless documentary crew, who find themselves telling the characters' story.
Rose is at first a grief counselor and then a consumer advocate for a local television station.
We were tied together at first by grief, then by determination to not let this happen to other families.
