Far from a rant, her tone throughout is cool and methodical, and her critiques are couched more in sorrow than in anger.
Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry.
“The U.S. celebrates the day it became independent every year with fireworks rather than sorrow,” he said.
Some national conservatives reacted in sorrow to Brewer's annoucement.
Incapable of movement, incapable of speech, I listened to her feverish words in an agony of shame and sorrow.
She gazed on his features as he slept; and was left to sorrow alone.
There is nothing but sorrow to be found in loving her, and her heart is no larger than her feet.
Did all the error and sorrow of her life pass distinctly before her?
This signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war.
Mother, I know the sorrow you will feel when you hear what has happened.
Old English sorg "grief, regret, trouble, care, pain, anxiety," from Proto-Germanic *sorg- (cf. Old Saxon sorga, Old Norse sorg, Middle Dutch sorghe, Dutch zorg, Old High German soraga, German sorge, Gothic saurga), perhaps from PIE *swergh- "to worry, be sick" (cf. Sanskrit surksati "cares for," Lithuanian sergu "to be sick," Old Church Slavonic sraga "sickness," Old Irish serg "sickness"). Not connected etymologically with sore (adj.) or sorry.
Old English sorgian, from sorg (see sorrow (n.)). Related: Sorrowed; sorrowing. Cf. Dutch zorgen, German sorgen, Gothic saurgan.
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