grief

Dickinson plumbs this trope of grief, but uses it to reveal the nature of art itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some years before the film takes place, Cassie drops out of med school, consumed by remorse and, later, grief.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Painful memories force her to confront first her own choices, then personal grief and finally, the family secrets that provide the novel’s distinctly elegiac and holistic tone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Sometimes it misses grief, trauma, a broken relationship, poor sleep or a life lived out of alignment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

The war had brought too much grief to too many people.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He succeeds in showing their interior world, immersing us in the tensions and pleasures, griefs and passions of their days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

The conversation ranges from what people think constitutes “a good death” to griefs they carry: old and new, individual and collective.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

This might be dramatised fiction but the losses and griefs are very real.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2022

“Even in WandaVision — really all of the films I’ve gotten to do — she’s constantly straddling this line and usually her biggest emotive losses or griefs are when something’s born,” Olsen said.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2022

“Childish griefs are never lasting. In a few days, she’ll forget that awful robot ever existed.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

I can only say how sincerely I ask pardon for having griefed you.

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

Fake news and misinformation are part of that, as are the traditional griefing techniques of subcultural trolls.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016

In a blog post after Tay’s griefing, Peter Lee, the vice president of Microsoft Research, vowed to “work toward contributing to an internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016

“Folks who are griefing or trolling feel like they are in a secondary universe that isn’t the same as the real world,” he said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2016

Although Lin's efforts are “admirable and likely industry-leading”, the representative says, many games are still “awash with verbal harassment, griefing and overall negative behaviour from teammates and opponents”.

From Nature ● Mar. 29, 2016

"The amount of griefing that goes on for the higher value pledges just isn't worth the amount of money it brings in," he said.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2013