The phrase "lingering sorrow" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feeling of sadness or grief that continues to be present for an extended period of time. Example: The death of her beloved pet left Susan with a lingering sorrow that she couldn't seem to shake despite the passing of months.
"I think he had a lingering sorrow that the career he adored was taken from him," Fellowes said.
Their marriage has clearly not been easy, and there is lingering sorrow and frustration, as well as persistent money trouble.
A lingering sorrow that has long soured Helen's life and marriage to Reed also is woven into the delicate fabric of the play, which quietly concludes on a hopeful note for most of the characters.
Besides the losses, many in the ranks of the department are still staggering emotionally, some in a lingering sorrow, others in rage at remote figures like the departing commissioner and the former mayor.
But it lingers, that sorrow, that sadness.
Oxford later provided a lingering, semi-secret sorrow: Mortimer was expelled in 1942 after romantic letters he wrote to a 17-year-old schoolboy fell into the hands of his crush's headmaster.
That's the undercurrent on "Take the Weather With You," which has him thinking, fleetingly, about "roadside bombers and tsunamis" and lingering over the sorrows of New Orleans.
The flashes of resentment, sorrow and lingering affection exchanged by these two great actresses perfectly cast in their roles makes one of the most compelling emotional duels to be seen in a movie in quite a while.
Ms. Reichardt answers the deep current of sorrow that runs through the film and the lingering sense of regret that hangs over the men with one pristinely framed image after another.
David Bewick, head of Cantor public relations, then read the poem Death is Nothing At All, familiar to mourners at so many funerals, lingering over its exhortation to "wear no false air of solemnity or sorrow".
If tears are not immediately forthcoming, the interviewer prods them with emotive questions until they are openly weeping before the lingering camera.The popular mood is such that to grieve privately and bear one's sorrow in public with dignity risks censure for lack of human feeling and sensitivity, or to be "emotionally deformed", as Bagehot puts it.
