Sentence examples for universal grief from inspiring English sources

Wayne LaPierre, the executive director of the N.R.A., in a speech the next morning to the Conservative Political Action Conference, outside Washington, D.C., made evident the deeper social compact that gives the gun lobby such power in the face of all reason and, at the moment, universal grief.

It shouldn't be hard to recognize something as universal as grief.

He believes, "Home" tells a universal story of grief and overcoming grief".

Crying is a nearly universal sign of grief, though some mourners report that, despite genuine sorrow, they cannot shed tears — sometimes even for years after their loved one has gone.

The Tennyson is a universal expression of grief: a perfect fusion of sense and sound that bypasses your brain and makes your guts sad.

Her voice is honest and true, especially has she questions her own intentions in this true crime account that wrenchingly lays bare the universal themes of grief, guilt, loss, and love".

This underlines the fact that mourning can take place in a radically different way, based on a thoroughly different understanding of death, highlighting how any claims to a universal "psychology of grief" pale in the face of human diversity.

But the greatest difference between them -- as we now know from the nearly universal outpouring of grief that has come from the Latino community -- is that Celia Cruz, as a cultural figure, transcended the notion of nationality.

She added: "The way she has the ancient and the modern, the high art and the references to classical art, but also the contemporary nature of the story, and the universal themes of grief, loss and gender … it's all so effortless … there's also really contemporary stuff like pornography, technology and surveillance".

Yes, it's about people surviving Hurricane Katrina and yes, it contains certain social/political commentary, but it is a universal saga of grief and survival.

Bleak and specific, but universal, fusing rage and grief, Lord of the Flies is both a novel of the 1950s, and for all time.