I could not but feel, in those sorrowful years, that this human indifference, concerning which I knew so much already, would be my portion on the day that the United States decided to murder its Negroes systematically instead of little by little and catch-as-catch-can.
It was just two years ago, in Baze v. Rees, that he renounced his support for the death penalty in an opinion grounded not in abstract principle but in years of sorrowful observation of how the death penalty was actually being administered under statutes and Supreme Court opinions that cut off avenues of appeal.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, December 28 , 1935P. 9 Days between Christmas and New Year's are sorrowful ones for adults.
"It's a sorrowful start to the academic year and our hearts go out to Jack's family and friends," University spokeswoman Lisa Powers said.
Forty years later, "A Sorrowful Woman" is my most anthologized story, and I get regular e-mails from bewildered high school and college students asking why this woman did what she did.
She did not explain why it had been twenty years since her quietly sorrowful novel "The Transit of Venus" was published.
In the French tradition of "Cherchez La Femme," he fell in love with the wrong 17-year-old, and that sorrowful affair led to a miserable duel.
His cousins posted short, sorrowful messages on Twitter after learning the 22-year-old was among the victims of Sunday's mass shooting.
He was cheered, however, by the reception that year of "I'm Movin' On," a sorrowful song about boarding a train and leaving a lover; the smash hit stayed in the number one spot on the charts for 21 weeks and was recorded in 36 languages.
It was not the first time in recent years we've felt this horror, this sorrowful sense of estrangement, not nearly.
