Thanks to public relations machinery, the world learned the sorrows borne by a college football star whose girlfriend came down with a fatal illness and died.
Anyway, Seasfire will be bringing an atmosphere of sepulchral sorrow to bear on the Notting Hill Arts Club this Sunday as part of a Communion night, where they will undoubtedly be performing the three tracks we have by them on our SoundCloud (now with new, improved widget!).
Isak Dinesen has been quoted as saying "all sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story or tell a story about them".
Mr. Grosz quotes Isak Dinesen, who observed that "all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them," and he goes on to argue that stories can help us to make sense of our lives, but that if "we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us — we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don't understand".
A gross simplification, of course, and perhaps a romantic distortion to boot; that there are agonies in Japan, often to do with the self and its sorrows, is amply borne out by the more than 1 million hikikomori, or shut-ins, who never leave their rooms, and by the sobering fact that one Japanese takes his or her life every 15 minutes.
We would not use this as a basis for "proving a point" or "applying pressure" on anybody, but simply to bear sorrow in the spirit of Yom Kippur.
New Order's best songs tend to be long, spilling over the boundaries of pop's three-minute template; they feel borne along by joy and sorrow in equal parts.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Those who came out last week despite the warnings seem to share the spirit of quiet defiance shown by many people in northern Japan, who have borne with stoicism and dignity the sorrows of nearly 30,000 people dead or missing.
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows (chorus) :25.
