"That was pure, unadulterated grief," Mr. Rather recalled.
The images from Joplin, Mo., were pure with grief.
The Greek chorus consisted of six women, Daughters of the Night, who represent pure, concentrated grief and terror.
"War Dances," a loose mosaic of lists, quizzes, interviews and poetry, evokes an entire spectrum of emotion surrounding the death of the narrator's father from alcoholism and diabetes: from rage to survivor's guilt to pure uninhibited grief to the blackest of black humor.
Compelling detail, tender, subtle colouring, economical text and pure emotion – loneliness, grief, hope and eventual joy – add up to a book of quiet but considerable power.
This might be the purest expression of grief, when our entire body weeps and shakes with the emotions that are ripping our hearts apart.
She advises widows, "Do not think that grief is pure, solemn, austere and 'elevated' – this is not Mozart's Requiem Mass... Think of crude gravel that hurts to walk on.
In this totemic, sorrowing work, Cleopatra Mathis reveals a grief so pure and learned that it burns, a solitary flame, beyond self-pity, beyond what is bearable.
Not only is the event swollen with more than enough grief, irony and pure horror to overwhelm intellection; but even as spectacle it assaults the imagination.
