Sentence examples for grieve him from inspiring English sources

This did not grieve him, he says, as he believed that the station had become soulless.

So it's not surprising that the failure of language would grieve him.

Even the death of an old friend doesn't grieve him: I felt as if I were made of glass, with the world outside shining straight through me and never lingering within, and hard as I attempted on this and many similar occasions to feel something, however much I tried, through reasonable argument, to make myself feel emotion, no response came from my rigid state of mind.

Whatever mystifies or grieves him, he attributes to an absence of local knowledge: "mishearing things.

Mum is 80 now, and she has spent most of her life with my father or grieving him.

He collaborated in the Casey decision, which saved Roe v. Wade, and he wrote an eloquent dissent in Bush v. Gore, a case which grieved him deeply.

I never heard him say a hard word about anyone, and it visibly grieved him when the rest of us made sport of our schoolmates.

Gove says that, as someone married to "a Welsh girl", it grieves him to say that Welsh education is behind English education.

It grieved him that the West knew so little of Russian culture, and so, after a decade of showing European art to the Russians, he turned around and started showing Russian art to the Europeans.

The collapse of respect for law enforcement grieves him, though he acknowledges that the police themselves are partly to blame because of their brutal tactics in fighting terrorists in the past decade.

The South Africa-based businessman also said the club's plight "grieved him".