Sentence examples for mute grief from inspiring English sources

'mute grief' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to refer to a grief that cannot be expressed through words or outward expressions (eg. tears). For example: She left the funeral with mute grief, unable to express the sorrow she felt.

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It is as if Cervantes himself were surprised by the event, and overcome with mute grief at the death of his creation.

He cloaks her journey in soft whites, as if in mute grief for the disappointment she must surely face at the end of her ordeal.

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As Doris, a barmaid who has married an ex-pat Polish officer, she switches from comic perky chatter to near-mute grief when he's missing in action.

Ms. Blandin said Ms. Tarleton's new face has helped mute the grief she still feels about the horrible damage done by the lye attack.

Ayckbourn knows how to construct funny stage pictures: in the second act, for instance, while the unnoticing guests prattle on around her, Eva Mireille Enoss), the wife of an architect, mute with grief over the collapse of her marriage, makes various attempts at suicide — flinging herself at the window, at the stove, and at a butcher knife propped up in a drawer.

I was constantly beet-red from mute rage and grief".

That said, the chorus's mute dance of grief – slowly crumpling across their conference table and rolling it over – strikingly reflects the account they're hearing of sinking ships and drowning men.

It was like an experience of grief, leaving you mute and small".

Her role as the grief-stricken, virtually mute Ronnie hasn't exactly been a stretch for her.

In our family we celebrate the holidays of joy and new beginning — Christmas and Passover — and mute, perhaps too much, those of grief and intractable suffering.

This style is peculiarly suited to capturing grief, which is irrational, physiological, mutable — and, often, mute.

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