Sentence examples for violent sorrow from inspiring English sources

Shakespeare himself described it well in a knotty passage in Macbeth, written in 1606: "violent sorrow seems / A modern ecstasy.

But nothing suggests the dimension of the horror, "where violent sorrow seems a modern ecstasy," more powerfully than the daring silence of Macduff (the excellent Michael Feast).

In the words of one of my favorite writer-writers, the great poet Czeslaw Milosz: The goal of an artist is to be free of violent joys and sorrows for which he had time enough during his past life.

My mother was a violent woman who preened in sorrow.

Despite the difficulty of publicly disagreeing with our father, he never hesitated to condemn any violent attacks made by anyone, and expressed sorrow for the victims of any and all attacks.

All that matters in this moment however is genuine sorrow for the tragic and violent loss of life.

On occasion when I met with people, they expressed sorrow that the mob turned so violent; they would be appalled to learn that Farai was at church on the night he was supposedly marauding.

Sadness, here, is not an inward experience of depression, it is the encounter of grief, nostalgia, and sorrow in a public spectacle that requires violent retribution.

It was a vicious -- but familiar -- cycle in which the sorrow roused by burials turned into the anger that fueled new rounds of violent confrontation between Palestinian youths and Israeli soldiers.

When the smoke clears (which tends to take a while), Mr. Woo's movies almost invariably turn out to be about the mysteries and the sorrows of male camaraderie, as revealed, then heightened, by the threat of violent, untimely demise.

Sorrow, sorrow, sorrow, grief, and sorrow.