"What's there to mourn about," asks a civil servant, who covertly supports Amal, an anti-monarchy group, "when time is on our side".Such bravado is still widely shared among working-class Shias.
'People say this constantly,' he sighs, 'but for me it is not so much about mourning as about desperation.
The end of the Iliad is, in other words, a narrative about grief yielding to mourning, about the way in which civilization responds to violence and horror.
"It took us three days to mourn about it," Mr. Santiago said of Ms. Deal's departure, and then the men decided to continue without her.
For weeks, the talk has been about little but death and mourning, about the latest service at St. Francis or St. Rose or St. Camillus.
Some of the Nets have been much more casual than Mourning about the team's early-season struggles because they remain certain they can turn it around.
These are, after all, people still reveling, or mourning, about that long-ago day (the same one on which the Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb).
According to Susan M. Art, a dean of students at the University of Chicago, "seniors often go into a prolonged period of mourning" about leaving.
With the noise at a deafening pitch and Mourning about to decide the series defensively, Childs took on the Heat as well as Dade and Broward Counties.
At Friday's opening-night show of an engagement that runs through Jan . 31at the Cafe Carlyle, there was even an original song, "September Mourn," about 9/11, written in English but stiffly Germanic in its diction.
"We can either play violins and sing and mourn about how wrong we've been done over 150 years in the country or we can play a trumpet and talk about good things that happen on this campus and what happens moving forward".
