Sentence examples for sorrow of war from inspiring English sources

He became known internationally as the Bob Dylan of Vietnam, singing of the sorrow of war and the longing for peace in a divided country.

If it had been a Vietnam film, at least one soldier would have got to question himself, or somehow connect with the audience over the sorrow of war.

I'll risk sharing my story, but who will take the greater risk of listening without judgement, perhaps to learn of the sorrow of war?

On this trip, I've read some wonderful books, among them "Dirty Snow," by Georges Simenon; "Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare," by Philip Short Alexanderer the Great," by Robin Lane Fox; and "The Sorrow of War," by Bao Ninh.

Only later are they credited with four of the greatest books on Vietnam: respectively the novels The Things They Carried, Matterhorn, The Sorrow of War, and A Bright Shining Lie.

The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh In 1995, 20 years after the fall of Saigon, I arrived in a bleak Hanoi housing project to meet this gifted, wasted writer.

In Iraq every day even the best of intentions are cruelly put to test by the miseries and sorrows of war.

A journey from suburban London to Brighton to Istanbul to South America, it also explores recent history — with a compassionate overview of the sorrows of war, a hilarious send-up of 1960s counter culture, and surprising revelations about Henry himself.

There are songs of creation, pictures of the sorrows of war, celebrations of human labor and human society, a respect for tools and domestic utensils that are well made, the deep background of the past tingeing the colors of the present, and the tragic tones of endings and laments, a pervading awareness of the tears in things.

Randall Jarrell, whose experience of military life was much milder than Wilbur's (he served at a Stateside airbase), was far more willing to admit the sorrow and pity of war into his poetry.

** Randall Jarrell, whose experience of military life was much milder than Wilbur's (he served at a Stateside airbase), was far more willing to admit the sorrow and pity of war into his poetry.