Sunday, June 27, 2010

DOLOROUS

dolorous: marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow

Example: And at the centre of this intense display of devotion Carlo himself, bearing aloft the relic of the Holy Nail from the cathedral, shoeless and oblivious to his bleeding feet, walked amid a dolorous procession of penitents. [Reference: Helen Langdon, Caravaggio: A Life]