bereavements

Biddy, wise with previous bitter bereavements, had sat down on the edge of the sand, her fore-feet in the water, and was mouthing her woe.

Chapter 1 2010

By now, we all know their rags-to-riches story: forming in Bury 20 years ago, getting dropped twice, throwing everything into their fourth album, The Seldom Seen Kid revived romances, personal bereavements and tons of orchestral experiment before winning the 2008 Mercury prize.

Elbow – review 2011

John, who had a string of family bereavements – including the deaths of James, his baby son from a previous relationship, and that of his father – before he met Jessica, has been in an especially fragile state since the death at birth of the couple's daughter, Meadow.

Grieving couple's plea: 'Don't let visa rules split us up' 2011

Jan had suffered on occasion from severe depression brought on by her own ill health, a series of bereavements of close relatives, and overwork at her university, but these depressions never amounted to a psychosis.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Jan had suffered on occasion from severe depression brought on by her own ill health, a series of bereavements of close relatives, and overwork at her university, but these depressions never amounted to a psychosis.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

The only flicker of personal feeling that surfaced in spite of himself in the many articles he published over a quarter of a century in the Chinese Recorder was an aside, in a piece written that autumn, on “the heart-rending bereavements that come to so many houses in spite of all medicine can do.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

The only flicker of personal feeling that surfaced in spite of himself in the many articles he published over a quarter of a century in the Chinese Recorder was an aside, in a piece written that autumn, on “the heart-rending bereavements that come to so many houses in spite of all medicine can do.”

PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010

The deaths of her friends in war are not the only bereavements in the book.

The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' 2010

She cheerfully admits to being unqualified as a family therapist, but displays an uncanny instinct on the show for emotional undercurrents, tracing confidence crises back to bereavements, missing fathers and so on.

Hayley Taylor: 'I've felt what the unemployed feel: losing confidence, staring at four walls' 2010

His fictional childhood bereavements, for example, are never maudlin.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010