dolor

With the end in sight the connection between Evans' Endeavour Morse and Thaw's feels closer than ever, previewed in a few surreptitiously placed lines of dialogue and the detective's amplified dolor.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2022

This is why the butt dial hits us where it hurts, triggering embarrassment that grades into a deeper existential dolor.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 5, 2019

Having spent three seasons struggling with its own dolor, “The Leftovers” was always interesting, in the worst, most nebulous sense of the word.

From Washington Post ● May 17, 2018

“The Long Christmas Dinner,” a comedy dappled with dolor, mostly comes off well until the director substitutes a sentimental ending for Wilder’s sad one, but “Pullman Car Hiawatha” is excruciatingly jollied up.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015

The little girl ghost, Bahar, dripping with river water and dolor, told her solemnly, “Sarai can’t play right now,” which sent a chill up her spine.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“All elements in this rainbow program,” Crowther wrote, “are carefully contrived and guaranteed to lift the dolors of winter and put you in a buttercup mood.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

But Joan’s story line kept getting pushed aside by the dolors of Pete, Roger and others.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2013

And Tarkovsky is happy to display them in their dolors, at his pace, with all the spare majesty of his style.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hero touches the wound in the side of the king with the sacred spear, ends his dolors, and is hailed as king in his place.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Remember, oh most loving Mother, by these, thy own dolors, the soul of thy poor servant, who will soon be engaged in her last earthly conflict.

From May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey