He had suffered personal torment of a different nature: the loss of his son to an apparent suicide.
Very heart-on-the-sleeve and a little too Christian for some tastes, but still profoundly affecting in its direct examination of the unbridled nature of loss.
Kurt's death sent Chris on a journey in search of everything he could learn about the war, the circumstances of his son's last days, American foreign policy, the nature of loss, you name it.
Despite the slew of self-help books that speak of the "overwhelming" nature of loss, we are designed to grieve, and a good number of us are what he calls "resilient" mourners.
On the page the book resembles a play, or a prose poem, possessing at times the qualities of a religious or mystical text – wandering, sprawling, repeating itself like a cry or a prayer, returning again and again to questions about the meaning and nature of loss.
Out of these disparate and disorienting facts, Russell Hoban has constructed a compelling meditation on the nature of loss and longing that, even after the final piece of the jigsaw slots into place, leaves us with enough unresolved mysteries to fill another book.
Emerging findings reflect the complex nature of loss and bereavement in the continuing care unit.
In order to monitor the wireless channel status and the nature of loss events, two variables are introduced, namely, C i and N i.
However, concentrated loads of heavy vehicles have a repetitive nature, causing loss of stiffness and potential strength reductions due to fatigue phenomena.
That's the only possible explanation for the smarmy, self-congratulatory five-minute video his dead (or undead) campaign released this weekend, featuring a Cruz staffer musing to an unseen audience about the nature of loss, regret, and the nobility of failing to stop a candidate whose angry nativism and fearmongering was only a shade darker than Cruz's.
