In the capital 400 kilometers (250 miles) away, kings, princes and presidents bid a sorrowful farewell to Mitterrand at a requiem Mass in the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

CNN: France and the world honor Mitterrand

Expert cinematography, compelling acting, and a story that leaves the viewer both sorrowful and angry, are a strong combination.

ECONOMIST: Poland's historical epic in the limelight

Sokurov has made not a documentary, however careful his inspection of painted surfaces, but a collection of small, sorrowful dramas wait for the imperial children, or the blind woman caressing a marble sculpture.

NEWYORKER: Russian Ark

This includes, you will be charmed to discover, more sex: a dinner party and postprandial seduction scene on a French plantation, and the dreamy, sorrowful coupling of soldiers and Playboy models in the cockpit of a grounded helicopter.

NEWYORKER: Apocalypse Now Redux

It was a mouth agape, incredulous, sorrowful, and confusing one.

FORBES: Learning From A Tragedy That The Right Time Is Now

Perhaps Lance is a very good actor, learning the part of being sorrowful for past deeds.

FORBES: Lance Armstrong, Lies and Lawsuits

They also sparked a range of reactions from people across the New York baseball world, ranging from hopeful to sorrowful.

WSJ: Baseball Hall of Fame: No Hall Passes for Mike Piazza, Roger Clemens

Time was when you could give audiences a thrill simply by casting young actors in the title roles, but ever since Franco Zeffirelli filmed the sorrowful tale of the star-crossed lovers in 1968, that expedient has come to be taken for granted.

WSJ: Star-Crossed Teens Clueless in Verona