Sentence examples for repressed grief from inspiring English sources

Mr. Oda is sensitively drawn, full of rage, shame, and repressed grief.

Howard, for his part, conveys Brick's barely repressed grief, and he beautifully channels his character's paralyzing sense of defeat.

It is a mental landscape of loss and repressed grief where the promises of yesteryear hang in the air like fading echoes.

This is called homeopathy and the only thing I will say in its defence is that, though fundamentally useless, no one has ever been as interested in me whingeing on as the ruddy-faced women who diagnosed my hay fever not as a reaction to pollen or even pollution, but as repressed grief about my mother's death.

Her self-­diagnosis was "conversion disorder," or, to use its former label, "hysteria," brought on by repressed grief over the loss of her beloved father.

This primordial figure is the collective shadow of our own ego's repressed grief in our struggle to embody an intuitive manner of being.

Her mother, though, insisted that she was repressing her grief and needed to see a counsellor, which Julia did, hating every minute of it.

He tried to repress his grief by spending more time with friends, but he couldn't keep from talking about his dad.

Instead, they offer small, sharp intensities, and, especially, unspoken or half-spoken feelings — frustration, grief, repressed ambition.

Shock and grief have accentuated George's repressed English mannerisms.

Chekhov wrote a moving story about an unpleasant coffin-maker, who has contrived, perhaps because of his buried grief, to repress the memory of his dead child, and who denies the child's very existence even as his wife is trying to remind him of it ("Rothschild's Fiddle").