The other spoke in a tone of despair so great and grief so acute that Soames was almost ashamed.

At least one of the following symptoms of persistent, intense, acute grief has been present for a period longer than is expected by others in the person's social (or cultural) environment:

The death of a team dog causes acute grief: this is a friendship forged through sharing hard work and challenge.

And although acute grief usually eases in four or five years, parents never entirely "let go."

The whole business was wrapped up very neatly in this formulation: "Normal acute grief lasts four to eight weeks."

Who knows what they might think of someone like me if they found out, someone who couldn't even keep to the agenda for normal acute grief?

To read some of these books now, when the city has suffered so, is to feel acute grief and longing.

Q: What characteristics define acute grief?

Marriage is a time of acute grief to the bride's mother.

Shassad looked at Mrs. Ryder in her moment of most acute grief.