What's the difference between grief and heartbreaking?
Grief
Definition:
(a.) Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness.
(a.) Cause of sorrow or pain; that which afficts or distresses; trial; grievance.
(a.) Physical pain, or a cause of it; malady.
Example Sentences:
(1) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(2) Mary's grief, which lasts for about the first half of the two-hour premiere special, is the finest work of the series so far by Michelle Dockery.
(3) Harry was 12 years old when Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash but said it was not until his late 20s, after two years of “total chaos”, that he processed the grief.
(4) Does he need the grief if the support is not there?
(5) Earlier descriptions of pathological grief are reviewed.
(6) As night fell in Paris, despite the bitter cold, more than 5,000 people gathered under the imposing statue of Marianne, the symbol of the republic, to show their anger, grief and solidarity.
(7) This supports conclusions by other grief counsellors (e.g.
(8) On Friday, friends and relatives spoke of their grief.
(9) The impact of early childhood loss, identification with the deceased, chronic grief, delayed grief, exaggerated or masked grief, and the death of a dream are discussed, and clinical examples are used to illustrate concepts of intervention.
(10) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
(11) This article reviews recent literature on bereavement concerning the typical features of both normal and pathological grief.
(12) Data are presented tentatively supporting the conclusion that the SIDS grief intervention program had a beneficial impact on the participants.
(13) This paper provides guidelines for health professionals in dealing with the particular grief reactions experienced by families of babies who die of the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
(14) When I think back to that time, I recall an almost constant sense of grief.
(15) We should grieve and we should be angry, but we must not let grief or anger cloud our judgment,” he said.
(16) 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Read more The city has improved significantly in recent years – crime dropped, the economy improved, the population stopped declining for the first time in 60 years – but you couldn’t see Baltimore’s newfound prosperity in Freddie Gray’s backyard, or in the gardens nearby.
(17) Of course, her grief and the work she is doing now are intimately connected.
(18) All participants completed a sibling bereavement inventory consisting of 109 scaled items that measured self-concept perceptions and grief reactions.
(19) Futile cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may prevent humane care of the dying child and deprive parents of the opportunity to express their love, grief, and dedication at a critical moment, while appropriate and successful CPR may restore intact their child.
(20) The grief work involved in coping with a loved one's death does not end when the loved one dies.
Heartbreaking
Definition:
(a.) Causing overpowering sorrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Chiefs chairman and chief executive, Clark Hunt, released a statement that said: "Our thoughts and prayers remain with the families and everyone affected by the heartbreaking events of last Saturday.
(2) "The scale of the devastation is extraordinary ... and the losses are heartbreaking," he said at the White House.
(3) But what I will say is that if you are young and you are experiencing feelings of fury and heartbreak about the result, you are justified in doing so.
(4) "I hope in the future they will show a more sensitive and impartial view to those involved in such heartbreaking events and especially in the lead-up to potentially high-profile court cases."
(5) Smith herself made regular, heartbreaking, televised pleas for her children’s return.
(6) Yet ice cream does do something funny to a lot of us: it makes us nostalgic and happy and, if you take your cues from Bridget Jones, it helps us recover from heartbreak.
(7) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(8) Forrest described the job cuts, from a workforce of about 4,500, as “personally tragic” and “heartbreaking”, but said the iron ore company was still making profits, with a break-even price of about US$39 a tonne.
(9) People deal with heartbreak in different ways, not all of them rational.
(10) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
(11) The Spurs get revenge on their heartbreaking loss to the Miami Heat in last year's NBA Finals.
(12) In painstaking and at times horrifying detail, Alexis Jay, the professor whose inquiry investigated the sexual exploitation of children over 16 years in Rotherham , has set out the alarming scale and heartbreaking individual instances of the abuse that began in the early 1990s.
(13) There remains no legal basis for preventing the Chagossians’ return.” The broadcaster Ben Fogle, the association’s patron, said: “It’s another heartbreaking day for the Chagossian community, who have repeatedly been betrayed and abused by their own government.
(14) It was heartbreaking to lose but I was oddly happy for him because I believe in him and love him as a person.
(15) To see him bow out in such circumstances was heartbreaking, but after 126 international caps, and 74 of those as captain, he had still earned the right to walk away with his head held high.
(16) Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) HEARTBREAKING: Rosh Yeshiva Kollel Toras Moshe Rabbi Moshe Twersky HY"D killed in todays Jerusalem terror attack.
(17) "When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere," the website explains.
(18) That is heartbreaking, it is wrong, and no one should be treated that way in the United States of America.
(19) In this heartbreakingly beautiful country, with its engaging and resourceful people, a little prosperity and the building of a few metaphorical bridges could lead to miracles.
(20) Another of his friends, the satirist Craig Brown , once described him as moving in a world without friction, as if never having known heartbreak.