Sentence examples for show sorrow from inspiring English sources

We'd want him to show sorrow, to take responsibility.

Catholics would attend the mass, bring offerings, show sorrow, do penance which might involve self-punishment or compensatory good works—until God became gracious; the church and its clergy mediated the transaction.

As he says toward the end of the show, mixing sorrow and regret, "You see, I'm still overcome with such an aversion to human beings, I can barely stop myself from retching".

The Melancholic soloist, to show his sorrow, has to perform huge backbends.

In the processional, men had been beating their bared chests to show their sorrow at Imam Hussein's martyrdom; some also whipped their backs with barbed chains.

(Alan Hollinghurst on E.M. Forster's "Maurice E.E. "When a beloved cat passed into the Afterlife, everyone in the house shaved their eyebrows to show their sorrow".

But the Patriarch's gentle admonition — a bizarre note in a chorus of busy scholars and professional connoisseurs — resonates with the dark qualities of the show: concreted sorrow, hard wisdom.

When his new wife discovers that Kikutani has a slight chance of gaining release from his parole, he is furious when she pushes him to a ritual show of sorrow.

Calling it a "moment of reckoning for Europe", she added: "Europe must show its sorrow but it must also show its strength".

"We want to show our sorrow for the dead today and to show them we are moving forward to the goal of democracy... we promised them we would continue," he said.

There is no embarrassment to show symbolic sorrow at the death of our Saviour.