Their silent howls mirrored my dumb sorrow.
She bent down over her baby daughter's cradle and fell silent in the sorrow of her fate.
When things go well, the cricket on the hearth chirps; it is silent when there is sorrow.
The outrage and sorrow and silent respect are as real as they would have been two hundred years ago.
Next he visited the house (called Quinta das Angústias, or Anguished Villa) where she died; he wrote: "for a long time I stood silent amidst thoughts of sorrow and longing under the shadow of a magnificent tree that enfolds and protects the house where the angel, so bitterly wept for, ceased to exist".
The cycle of poems "In Hora Mortis" (Latin for "In the Hour of Death"), in which the poet plangently complains of his sorrow to a silent God, seems particularly incongruous.
Her voice clamps into each song, performing careful variations on pitch, stretching words but generally not scatting; her face conveys meaning, representing sorrow or serenity like a silent-movie actor.
The teachers looked at her more tenderly, tickled by her attack of Argentineness, and cooked up elaborate excuses for her usual silent inattention, which they now viewed as secret sorrow for her absent brother.
Writing in The Guardian, Anja Seeliger commented that "the German media initially reported on the case at the back page", and only in the light of the vociferous protests by thousands of Egyptians in Cairo, "the German federal government, which had kept silent for nearly a week, issued words of sorrow".
