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But this kindly softening of the ending may be counterbalanced by another scene "off the page," the deaths of Aragorn and Arwen in another appendix, a scene which stretches past death to eternal loss and inconsolability.
'The Wrong Sow' Shippey, Tom 2006
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A universal feature is inconsolability, and attempts at consolation are fruitless and may serve only to prolong or even intensify the confusional state.
"Sleep terrors" Jenny Davidson 2005
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A universal feature is inconsolability, and attempts at consolation are fruitless and may serve only to prolong or even intensify the confusional state.
November 2005 Jenny Davidson 2005
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A universal feature is inconsolability, and attempts at consolation are fruitless and may serve only to prolong or even intensify the confusional state.
Archive 2005-11-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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When the fever is accompanied by a stiff neck, confusion, lack of energy, difficulty in awakening or inconsolability.
unknown title 2009
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When the fever is accompanied by a stiff neck, confusion, lack of energy, difficulty in awakening or inconsolability.
unknown title 2009
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When the fever is accompanied by a stiff neck, confusion, lack of energy, difficulty in awakening or inconsolability.
unknown title 2009
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It is more the angry romantic’s expression of inconsolability — in having had an innocence and, having lost it, having to mourn it.
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At one level his brother’s inconsolability pained and angered him.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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