Sentence examples for like sorrow from inspiring English sources

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Nouns like "sorrow" and "body" are common; ones like "mopiness" and "noggin" are nonexistent.

His use of figures to represent human attitudes like sorrow or fear in some cases strike the viewer as ludicrous.

He thinks of the boy a lot these days, sometimes with irritation, sometimes with a fierce love that feels like sorrow.

More common, it seems, is the recurring gag gift, which, like Sorrow the stuffed dog in the novel "The Hotel New Hampshire," finds a way to pop up year after year.

Joseph, the assistant, also enjoys swimming on his days off: "What swimming person, provided he is not about to drown, can help being in excellent spirits?" The proviso about drowning introduces a dark flutter of ambiguity, but, generally speaking, Walser's narrators claim to be in excellent spirits even when they are drowning: "Of course, I like sorrow very much as well, it's very valuable, very".

This is part of the Confucian response to the focus on wuwei and reducing desires in texts like the Laozi and Zhuangzi affects like sorrow and care arise spontaneously, by ziran.

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"Astrology doesn't shy away from symbols that explore our weaknesses and 'weak feelings', like grief, trauma, sorrow, denial, misperception, projection, self-sabotage, victimisation," says astrologer Danny Larkin.

It may be far easier for subclinically depressed individuals to relate words of negative valence, like "regret" or "sorrow", to their personal experience (Kensinger, 2004) than to relate pictures that depict specific events that are happening to someone else.

But the cast has already let us know this with an expressiveness that — like great sorrow — is beyond words.

There she discovers Sadie (Besedka Johnson), an octogenarian who, partly locked away by old age and what comes increasingly to feel like unspoken sorrow, seems every bit as isolated as Jane.

She likes the sound of her own voice; it's like the radio, distracting her from the sound of her daughter's cries, which echo in her imagination, like the sorrow songs.

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