sorrowing

The challenge for the author is to write a pulse-pounding thriller without sorrowing over this injustice too much.

“We mend, but we don’t forget,” she offers by way of comfort to the sorrowing nobleman.

But Aethra, Theseus’ mother, to whom those other sorrowing mothers had first turned, was bold to interrupt the two Kings.

“Words fail to describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a sorrowing household,” wrote David Wills, a lawyer who led the effort to create the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

Combining formal audacity with emotional intimacy and sharp social observation, the picture attains a fullness of humorous, sorrowing life.