sorrowful
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Sorrowful anniversaries also inevitably make us wonder what might have been.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2020
Is Schuller’s house of “Possibility Thinking” an apt home for the Sorrowful Mysteries?
From Washington Post • Jul. 17, 2019
Best animal appearances The little owl with an unusually mobile neck in A Lullaby for the Sorrowful Mystery.
From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2016
Lav Diaz’s eight-hour “A Lullaby for the Sorrowful Mystery” also picked up a Silver Bear prize “for a feature film that opens new perspectives.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016
At the first Sorrowful Mystery, she said Papa’s full name, as if she were calling him to account, not praying for him.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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