Sentence examples for public grieving from inspiring English sources

A1 A Final Visit With the Pope A million people flocked to St. Peter's Square to grieve over the pope's body by the end of the first full day of public grieving.

His suicide aroused an almost Princess Diana-like outpouring of public grieving in Britain.

LaWanda's mother and sister are out, preparing for the public grieving that awaits them.

He may think that "the American side takes its losses so much harder," but he must be impervious to the daily scenes of public grieving of Iraqis who have lost loved ones in yet another car bombing.

Though I come on my mother's side from a long line of Shiites, who encourage public grieving through institutionalized mourning called matam, there's little I find more mortifying than crying in front of strangers.

But if those forms of communication initially brought the country together in displays of public grieving -- through broadcasts of memorial services and Web site tributes to the victims -- they have more lately become national forums for the expression of anxiety.

West's mother, Donda, passed away in 2007, and Kanye has been public in grieving for her.

The Pulp Fiction and Grease star and his actress wife spent a year out of the public spotlight grieving for Jett.

A familiar pattern tends to emerge in the aftermath, with two differing narratives on what happened relayed to an indifferent public, a grieving family caught in the inefficient machinery of the legal system, and a return to business as usual.

Mr. Betts, a development corporation board member, asked its chairman, Mr. Whitehead, "to put me in charge of ground zero". It was not long before Mr. Betts got a taste of just how difficult it would be to oversee a public project involving clashing government entities, a private developer and a grieving public.

His challenges when it comes to connecting with a grieving public are often both personal and political.