dolor
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With the end in sight the connection between Evans' Endeavour Morse and Thaw's feels closer than ever, previewed in a few surreptitiously placed lines of dialogue and the detective's amplified dolor.
From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022
This is why the butt dial hits us where it hurts, triggering embarrassment that grades into a deeper existential dolor.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019
Having spent three seasons struggling with its own dolor, “The Leftovers” was always interesting, in the worst, most nebulous sense of the word.
From Washington Post ● May 17, 2018
Pearson searched Google and found “Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim,” which is Latin for, “Be patient and tough; this pain will be useful.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2015
The little girl ghost, Bahar, dripping with river water and dolor, told her solemnly, “Sarai can’t play right now,” which sent a chill up her spine.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
“All elements in this rainbow program,” Crowther wrote, “are carefully contrived and guaranteed to lift the dolors of winter and put you in a buttercup mood.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
But Joan’s story line kept getting pushed aside by the dolors of Pete, Roger and others.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2013
And Tarkovsky is happy to display them in their dolors, at his pace, with all the spare majesty of his style.
From Time Magazine Archive
Maternal Joy, Mater Inviolata are specimens of a sane, lovely art which celebrate the joys, dolors, and exaltations of motherhood.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
Funeral dolors rather than bridal carols inspire even the harp of David, beloved of the Lord; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost toucheth ever the shadowed phases of our earthly lives.
From Shakespeare's Insomnia, and the Causes Thereof by Franklin H. (Franklin Harvey) Head
Vocabulary lists containing dolor
The Tempest
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"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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