dolor

In three hours of listless dolor, Matt Reeves’s oppressively dour “The Batman,” which came out this spring, turned its hero into a comically emo Bat-adolescent.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

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

"Un pueblo unido en el dolor," a plaque at the foot of the monument reads.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2021

There can be something suspect about dolor, with its seam of gratification, and Christle’s self-awareness occasionally falters, so that her objective can feel less like catharsis than like a literary ode to wallowing.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2020

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

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

Remember, oh most loving Mother, by these, thy own dolors, the soul of thy poor servant, who will soon be engaged in her last earthly conflict.

From May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey