As "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" moves toward its violent, melodramatic and distressingly appropriate ending, readers may feel a Proustian nostalgia for the novel's lost time, a sadness that mirrors the melancholy that haunts Wang Qiyao and pervades the fascinating, mostly vanished longtang of Shanghai.
Meanwhile the daughter, played with rich feeling by Anika Larsen, embarks on a confused search for love complicated by her sorrow over her brother's death and her ambivalence toward her father.
The closing of the Emerson branch in 1969, part of the move toward racial integration, provoked a deep sense of sorrow in the black community here, a sense of loss that has not been fully voiced until lately.
AMITY & SORROW, by Peggy Riley.
The path of sorrow upon sorrow.
In a 2011 survey of gay Mormons by researchers at Utah State University, most said their strongest feeling toward the church was sorrow.
These are stirring questions, pointing toward a deep, buried sorrow and regret, and yet the novel itself seems as repulsed by such emotions as its narrator is.
Pedro II remarked in his journal: "I cried from happiness and also from sorrow seeing my Mother so affectionate toward me but so aged and so sick".
Mr. Oldenburg took the anger of Abstract Expressionism and redirected it toward sorrows found in the real world.
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".
