"ongoing grief" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the persistent feeling of mourning or sorrow that can follow a traumatic event or the loss of a loved one. For example, "She has experienced ongoing grief since the death of her parents last year."
The ongoing grief, rage, and heartbreak of abuse survivors will not, one presumes, be acknowledged.
I think she also made a series of great mistakes in judgment that have coalesced into a mosaic reflecting Europe's ongoing grief.
He said the ANU recognised that removing them from their burial site had "caused ongoing grief to your communities", and it hoped that returning them could "in some way redress our past mistakes".
The book is an engaging and sometimes moving account of how he harnessed his knowledge of Greek tragedy and his ongoing grief to found a company, Theater of War, which presents readings of plays such as Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes to military and civilian communities across the US.
Niru learns, for example, of his mother's ongoing grief over a daughter who died in infancy when, as she emptied her purse to search for her keys one day, he glimpsed the tiny picture of the baby she kept there before she quickly snatched it away.
This has all been well and sensitively played out, with ENOUGH ONGOING GRIEF FOR EVERYONE TO DEAL WITH - characters and listeners alike.
It's rare enough to witness the ongoing, breathing grief of a father about to lose the custody of his child – and even rarer to truly feel empathy for both parents.
Cavaliere died in 2012 from ovarian cancer, the same type that killed her mother three years earlier, and her ongoing preoccupation with grief made it all the more poignant.
"The immediate post-death shock is sensitively described, but I did not get a strong sense of the ongoing, devastating, tearing grief and its long aftermath," Susan Hill objected in the Spectator.
After all, the mainstream press, i.e., the white press, had a hard time fitting the ongoing symphony of grief over Jackson into its normal mold.
Consequently, teachers and others who routinely work with adolescents are in a position to not only recognize grieving students, but also to grapple with how best to accommodate students dealing with the pain and ongoing journey of grief.
