Sentences with phrase «unexpected death of her father»

Flanagan was elected to the Legislature in 1986 after the unexpected death of his father.

As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen - year - old Cielle endures a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father.

The unexpected death of my father serendipitously became the subject of my studio inquiry and continues to influence and inform my practice and its thematic underpinnings.»

Not exact matches

I remembered all the well - intended and heartfelt things that people had said to me at the time of my father's unexpected death, words that sounded hollow at best and callous and counterproductive at worst.

She finished the three miles and was proud of herself, so she looked for a 10K to run because her father loved that distance, and she wanted to honor him after his death from an unexpected heart attack at 49.

With the news of his father's death comes an unexpected legacy: a penguin.

Stoker centers around a teenager dealing with the sudden death of her father and the unexpected reappearance of a mysterious uncle.

Yet a lot is going on outside the office, including the recent death of his father and an unexpected announcement from his girlfriend (Jennifer Garner).

Macdonald's unusual and poetic memoir, H Is for Hawk, seamlessly weaves the story of her intimate struggle with grief following her father's unexpected death along with her fascinating attempt at training a wild and often vicious goshawk.

1999: Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel «Most illustrious Lord Father we are terribly saddened by the death of your cherished sister, our dear aunt; but our sorrow at losing her is as nothing compared to our concern for your sake, because your suffering will be all the greater, Sire, as truly you have no one else left in your world, now that she, who could not have been more precious to you, has departed, and therefore we can only imagine how you sustain the severity of such a sudden and completely unexpected blow.»

In this dark retelling of Rumplestiltskin, young Charlotte takes over the family's woolen mill after her father's death and is faced with unexpected debts, catastrophes, and a curse that threatens her family's future.

End Notes is a collection of 10 interlinked stories about loss, mourning and commemoration.An English girl uses a Nigerian ritual to mourn her beloved grandmother; journalists in pursuit of a story carry out «the death knock»; siblings discover hidden aspects of their father's life when they attend his two very different funerals; a Spanish woman encounters unexpected tenderness and grace in a London hospice; a collector goes in search of ghost stories at a haunted Finnish manor; 1988, 2016, 2017 - what was wrong with those years?