overpowering grief

My whole soul yielded itself up to a strong and overpowering grief.

All his hatred and fury, all of his overpowering grief came together, focused by the driving power of his weapon.

You were not only the love of my life, you were my steady consort in my social, cultural and professional pursuits, all the more reason for my overpowering grief!

The human mind possesses a special mechanism to shut off feelings of overpowering grief, leaving the bereaved person in a state of numbness and shock, until they are ready to cope with what has happened.

The death of her son Thomas (Tad) in July 1871, following the death of two of her other sons and her husband, led to Mary Lincoln's suffering an overpowering grief and depression.