Sentence examples for intense mourning from inspiring English sources

For Shia Muslims the death of Hussain is a period of intense mourning, leading some to beat and whip themselves.

"Judaism calls for a period of intense mourning known as shiva that lasts seven days after a loved one is buried.

ACCORDING to the Jewish calendar we are now in the month of Av, a period of increasingly intense mourning that culminates with a total fast on the Ninth of Av, which this year coincides with Sunday, Aug. 10.

But with Kim Jong Il's death, negotiations with the United States — which retains about 28,000 troops across the border in South Korea — are likely to be put on hold, as the North enters months of intense mourning for the Dear Leader, and rising uncertainty.

When an elephant dies, its family members engage in intense mourning and burial rituals, conducting weeklong vigils over the body, carefully covering it with earth and brush, revisiting the bones for years afterward, caressing the bones with their trunks, often taking turns rubbing their trunks along the teeth of a skull's lower jaw, the way living elephants do in greeting.

However, the new edition views intense mourning as a condition that may require psychiatric treatment.

The tragedy sparked intense national mourning in the US and a fierce debate over violent imagery used in political discussion.

When peace came, there came also a long period of intense and repressed mourning.

Shiites commemorate Hussein's death annually in the intense day of mourning known as Ashura.

The ceremony followed nine days of intense and emotionally charged mourning and memorial activities held in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

As Francis Flute portraying Thisbe, David Greenspan similarly goes in for intense feeling: with Thisbe mourning her dead lover in a delicate croon, he almost seems to be auditioning for a crack at playing Shakespeare's Cleopatra.