The euro crisis and the sorrows of Greece sparked a new urgency for fiscal responsibility.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 1774 classic "The Sorrows of Young Werther" triggered a spate of copycat suicides all over Europe.
The Met's joint commissioning program with Lincoln Center Theater will conduct a workshop this spring of Scott Wheeler's "The Sorrows of Frederick, " with a libretto by the late Romulus Linney based on his 1960s play.
Although part of him wishes he could have accompanied the units sent to Iraq, he said he's glad he was able to offer spiritual guidance to those who stayed behind, helping them search for deeper spiritual meanings amid the sorrows of war.
And they also know that I'm going to be open and honest with them about the highs, the lows, the joys, the sorrows, but they also know that it all ends in praise, and that at the end of the day I have to go through this, we have to go through this in order to make us better, and in order to get to the next level.
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 Germany duly awaited a flood of novels dealing with the joys and sorrows of the reunion of East and West.
" He said the scandal was "one of the great sorrows of my life.
The "abortive sorrows and short-winded elations" to which Fitzgerald refers in the opening quote account to most, if not all, of America's transient aspirations, practically from the country's inception.
"The last time we saw Jack, he was drowning his sorrows in the 'Doctor Who' version of the 'Star Wars' cantina, " said Jennifer Steele, a 29-year-old Whoverse fan and Alta Language Services project manager in Atlanta.
Most literate: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton: discussed here.
And they may well prove to be the ultimate breeding grounds for contagions like that now spreading throughout parts of Europe, with northern Germany, thus far, taking the brunt of sorrows.
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It is a concept album, each piece is a progression through the innocence and playfulness of youth, the joys and sorrows of life as one gets older, spiritual awakening and finally death.
Shining amid these sorrows is the aged couple's patience and great humour.
Later in the day, we came across a group of locals gathered at an open-air bar to pay tribute to a deceased loved one, swigging from small buckets to drown their sorrows after the funeral.
Travelling through the book, the reader is introduced to a range of character studies complemented by descriptions of real people, including Marilyn Monroe, whose early sorrows blighted the rest of her life.
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Just south of the Taitao Peninsula, the large Golfo de Penas (Gulf of Sorrows) is open to storms from the western Pacific and swells can reach 5m high.
Albemarle retreated to the Governor's Residence at Port Royal to drown his sorrows, his health deteriorating rapidly in the inhospitable climate.
While some on Wall Street are likely drowning their sorrows Monday over the disappointing offering, and shares may yet rise, those who steered investors clear of Facebook in its first days as a public company may be seeing it as a plus, he said.
In the hotel where I was staying in Cardiff, some of those supporters were drowning their sorrows before casting envious glances at the television to take in Ireland's World Cup play-off against France.
There is nothing to do here: no nightclubs, no places of entertainment, and no bars in which to drown your sorrows, as even the teahouses are dry of liquor.
Mr Brown said the "private lives, private losses and private sorrows" of many "wholly innocent" men, women and children had been "treated as public property" by News International, adding that he knew of more victims of hacking.
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Indeed, while a few on Wall Street are reaching for the champagne, most Main Street lenders are inclined to drown their sorrows.
When I am with them, I am empathic and supportive, and I do my best to help them through their sorrows and loneliness, which they feel as acutely as the poor and the middle classes feel their heartache.
Nobody in the West is brought up any more with this love of life and acceptance of its sorrows as well as an ability to experience its joys so deeply.
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