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.

They dressed the maiden as though for her death and carried her to the hill with greater sorrowing than if it had been to her tomb.

“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.