dolor

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

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

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

Yet Mr. Wackerman doesn’t seem to trust Wilder’s dolor.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 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

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

Besides these, still another symbolic precaution is taken: a tiny piece of sugar is added, to sweeten the dolors of marriage.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various