A mothers grief, spreading flowers on the street where her son was shot and killed by police in Ferguson.
A sense of shock, grief and solidarity spread rapidly through the city.
While the mourning has centered on Mulberry Street, the grief has also spread to cramped apartments in Brooklyn, funeral parlors in Queens and even a once-grassy patch of highway shoulder along Interstate 95, the spot where the bus crashed into a sign stanchion at 5 30 a.m.
When the green screens went up around Dorans Pride at Cheltenham last month, for instance, it was somewhat hard to take the sickly ooze of grief that was spread over his corpse by people who were entirely willing to let him risk his neck, and to enjoy the spectacle of him doing so.
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It spreads grief, and though it intends to do so, it spreads even much more than it intends.
As news of the crash spread, grief-stricken relatives gathered at the airports in Islamabad and Karachi.
Hardly anybody in tennis called Elena Baltacha anything else and, now that liver cancer has taken this special person at 30 years of age with vicious swiftness, the recollections that bind the spreading grief are those of her almost childlike urge not to let people down – and a love of talking.
I took lovers not so much because I wanted sex but to spread my grief around.
Great indeed were the outpourings of grief as this news spread throughout the world of the sectarian-orthodox - the charedim, the "black hat" Jews of Golders Green (where he lived), Stamford Hill and Gateshead.
Grief and outrage has spread quickly in response to the deaths, giving rise to the hashtag #CopticLivesMatter.
