Sentences with phrase «living by grief»

But instead of living by grief, she pounds cancer flat onto the pavement beneath her feet.

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Sheehan urged us to imagine the money and grief that we could spare ourselves by shaking free of the command to nurture life to its end, and deciding instead to weigh the costs and benefits of our situations.

A grief growth group or a living - with - dying group can help mid-years persons do their growth work around these anxieties by providing the most favorable context — a caring community.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

Among Lewis's most powerful writings are three that came very near the end of his life — Till We Have Faces, The Four Loves and A Grief Observed (each influenced in important ways by his having come to know and eventually to marry Joy David - man Gresham).

Raines exposes the often forgotten positive aspects of grief and the benefits of the grieving process, reminding us that good grieving rescues us from self - pity and other life - denying attitudes by enabling us to preserve our past with solidity and depth, by opening us to new meanings in the future beyond anger and regret, and by building compassion into our lives for all who struggle to make their grieving selves a friend of life.

While I laboured in our home to give birth to another tiny - barely - there - baby that we would not hold in this life, my burning tears were tasted by a mouth that only spoke tongues for those long hours, my heart somehow in a groaning along with my body, for the joining of grief and worship and trust.

Engulfed by grief, the family gathered in Vermont, where Coffin's brother Ned lived and where Coffin had been courting Randy Wilson, whom he later married.

And if we can not find God in your house or in mine, upon the roadside or the margin of the sea; in the bursting seed or opening flower; in the day duty or the night musing; in the general laugh and the secret grief; in the procession of life, ever entering afresh, and solemnly passing by and dropping off; I do not think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane.

Never denying that life is painful and requires grief by design.

Howard's comments were prompted by Phillips» appearance Tuesday night on CNN's «Larry King Live» show, in which she tearfully expressed grief at her aunt's death.

As i wait for the arrival of a baby conceived after the death of my first baby when he was a month old, i worry about being able to offer him / her a life not completely shadowed by sadness and grief... I hold on to the hope that the love i already feel for this tiny human growing in me will allow me to give him the full life he / she deserves.

Adoption - attuned Lens I began this review by stating: the proverbial Circle of Life inevitably links love, loss and grief.

Thankfully I am surrounded by people who love me and are looking out for me, but in this journey... on these rough seas of grief and life and love, at the end of the day, I am the Captain of my own Life Blife and love, at the end of the day, I am the Captain of my own Life BLife Boat.

Consider the various laws named after children who were abducted and murdered, championed by parents who wanted to make sure that no other family's life would be shattered by crushing grief.

Book Review: Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss.

The queen's doctors got grief for «risking her life by using a dangerous drug simply to relieve the pain of labor,» Dr. Donald Caton writes in his recent book «What a Blessing She Had Chloroform» (Yale University Press, $ 40).

The government meanwhile chooses to let down local residents further by removing controls on bad landlords - those bedsit barons who make tenants» lives a misery and whose neglect can cause widespread grief for their neighbours.

One Friday night we were mourning the loss of pizza in our lives, but instead of getting consumed by grief we decided to hit up the grocery store and create a healthy, vegan spin on the usually cheesy and calorie - loaded dish.

Yoga Therapists, informed by the intelligence of the practice of yoga, skilfully witness and accompany clients and patients, in the realm of life shatterings, grief, injuries, trauma and disease.

Paul Bettany is note - perfect as Darwin, whether shading in grief, showing the erotic heat beneath his love for his wife (played by Bettany's real - life partner, Jennifer Connelly; they have palpable chemistry), or perfectly essaying the torturous nature of channeling ideas into words.

As for his own personal life, Alexander defies convention not by the intense homoerotic suggestions between he and Jared Leto's Hephaistion (homosexuality not a social taboo during this time), but by his marriage to Roxane (Rosario Dawson), a woman of a lower social order and about whom Alexander is given much grief from his advisors.

The loss has left her not only grief - stricken and brooding about the meaning of life but fearful about her current fetus and burdened by doubts about her emotionally - distant husband's (Timothy Hutton) fidelity.

Director Terry George's adaptation of the John Burnham Schwartz novel Reservation Road is a thoughtful and often compelling drama about grief, anger and revenge featuring strong lead performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo as two fathers whose lives are irrevocably linked and altered one fateful night.

Becca and Howie (Kidman and Eckhart) are a wealthy couple in the New York suburbs, but their life is coloured by intense grief after the accidental death of their 4 - year - old son.

The picture is about the noxious half - life and death of grief, its ending as suggestive of rebirth as it is of self - immolation — marking the belief that the process is one best defined by ambiguity.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

A story of grief and revenge, Kruger leads the line as a woman whose life is torn apart by the death of her husband and son in a race - fueled terror attack, and the pain she endures seeking justice against the Neo Nazis who perpetrated the heinous act.

Continuing on his appointed rounds, the insurance man's next stop is the rubble left behind by a lethal fire that destroyed the home of a woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is grief - stricken over the total loss of everything she's known in the home where she has lived for 30 years.

Dunham: The village at the top of the hill had not been affected by the water, but many families were wailing in grief for family members who lived below.

Streep brilliantly embodies the grief - stricken, aged Mary, mother of Jesus, as she recounts her unusual life in a tired, world - weary tone that suits a mother haunted by her son's tragic death.

A young widow's triumphant journey through grief During the first few months of Sophie Stanton's life as a widow, she goes to work dressed in her bathrobe, finds herself sobbing in the produce section of her local grocery store and is crippled with fear by the pattern on her shower curtain.

The Angel in My Pocket By Sukey Forbes Penguin • $ 16 • ISBN 9780143127574 In a profoundly moving meditation on grief and the path to healing, Forbes recounts her struggle to rediscover joy and meaning in life after enduring the death of her 6 - year - old daughter, Charlotte.

George Saunders stopped by Nashville and Parnassus books this weekend for Salon@615 to promote his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, which explores the challenge of living in a world filled with pain and grief.

- Elizabeth Graver, author of The Honey Thief «With acute, loving attention, Beth Greenfield shows us how the living, transformed by grief, stagger back toward a renewed life.»

I think «She lived in the present only and that was my refuge» is a key line and one of the many points where I think MacDonald finds expression of her personal grief that can be understood by many people.

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg (Scout Press) Already longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, this debut from literary agent Clegg (Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man) is a scorching depiction of a community's grief after a life - changing event.

Life from then on was of immense grief compounded by her inability to share her feelings with her parents, particularly her mother.

As the premiere shifts locations — from Rome to San Francisco — Costa leaves Europe for the first time in his life, and is pulled from his grief and ambivalence by Maggie Flavier and the city by the bay.

She has appeared in The Living End, directed by Greg Araki, and Grief, directed by Richard Glatzer.

The cherry tree as a metaphor of life and death recurred in many other paintings by Snyder in the 1990s and provided her with a sense of release from grief.

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His Dad's law practice and his life set the standard for Mike's courage, for not giving up, and for providing dignity and hope to people broken by grief and despair.

In addition to providing for income lost by your death, life insurance also covers your actual funeral and burial costs as well as any expenses related to grief counseling for your loved ones.

Life insurance ensures that your family's grief from your early death will not be compounded by financial obligations they can not meet because of the loss of income.

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