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It’s the song on the album that most directly addresses her breakup, and does so unflinchingly with a sorrowful piano.

Tonally, this steady and powerful film is everything the original program wasn’t: hesitant, sorrowful and compassionate for every human being onscreen.

At the start, music is mournful but not quite sorrowful, a lightly contemplative jazz-inspired feel anchored by a steel hang drum.

How sorrowful that it has come to this parting of ways, 140 years after the French presented us with that lovely monument to our shared spirit, the figure who lifts her lamp over Liberty Island.

The country's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon called it a "dark and sorrowful day in New Zealand's history as a society", saying "we should have done better, and I am determined we will do so".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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