Sentence examples for was a grief from inspiring English sources

For two years he was a grief Automat, crying unstoppably at the mention of her name.

Henry Brookfield's insistence in 1851 that his wife's passionate but platonic friendship with Thackeray should end was a grief greater than any the author had known since his wife's descent into insanity.

Later, the American photographer and writer Leo Rubinfien described Tomatsu's Nagasaki images as "sad, haggard facts" and noted that "beneath the surface there was a grief so great that any overt expression of sympathy would have been an insult".

It was a grief from which he never fully recovered.

Joyce Msokeri, 47, filled a room at Kensington's Hilton hotel with donations after saying she was a grief-stricken victim of the disaster, which killed 71 people.

That might mean being a grief counselor.

And it's a grief we are slowly learning to navigate.

His wife, Sally, is a grief counsellor, kept busy in the aftermath of Sandy.

And it hasn't been a grief allowed to rest either.

Ash can make you clean, as alkaline as it is a grief.

From one day to the next, you're a fireman, you're a paramedic, you're a grief counsellor.