Sentence examples for piercing sorrow from inspiring English sources
As I entered her hospital room, just the two of us present, her green eyes met mine in piercing sorrow and grief.
Music is arranged in collage form, allowing Ms. Johnson to move restlessly through Ariadne's torments — her piercing sorrow in the slow, painful Monteverdi ("Let me die!"), her bittersweet flashbacks during the Haydn and her anguish, exposed and raw, in "Pierrot Lunaire".
The text is shot through with a piercing sorrow, over all our pending losses – of children, of the world we've made together as a race.
But clarity, cruel clarity, keeps piercing through to their sorrow and our edification.
Even "Memory," Ms. Buckley's signature song from "Cats," emerged refreshed when scaled-down from a piercing theatrical cry into a wretched feline's sigh of exhaustion and sorrow.
At the words "il suo dolor," referring to the sorrow that can be seen on the young woman's face, Monteverdi tweaks the harmonies with piercing dissonance, sung with restrained beauty by these three fine singers.
It is the poetry of pain, searing and piercing to pity; it is the poetry of the Tragic Muse, whose visage, though "marred more than any man," is yet transfigured in the sorrow of song.
Sudden, piercing cold wind.
This utter, piercing pain.
