love and loss
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- noun
- Literature
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amor y pérdida
- There are themes of love and loss that seem beyond the interest of most children before 12, or even older.
- a tale of love and loss
And that's why I say love and loss teach us a lot about ourselves.
- And that's why I say love and loss teach us a lot about ourselves.
Examples
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Remembers Athos' tale of love and loss.
Fiction book (1993) -
Many artists create works that reflect their personal experiences of love and loss.
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This woman, in the evening of her life, has experienced love and loss and clearly knows what's important in life.
Blog text (32) -
And that's why I say love and loss teach us a lot about ourselves.
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It is a story of love and loss.
Blog text (24) -
Twists and turns, love and loss, happiness and sadness, success and failure.
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The Dinah Washington song "I'll Close My Eyes" evokes every feeling of love and loss within her.
Fiction book (1995) -
He reflects on his childhood, his love and loss, his shortcomings, and the bad choices that pushed his wife away.
Blog text (3) -
The novel beautifully explores the theme of love and loss through its rich characters.
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In his poetry, he often writes about the complexities of love and loss in relationships.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is a direct conjunction of the known words 'love' and 'loss'—a B1 learner who knows those constituents will readily infer it refers to the paired themes or experiences of affection and grieving/absence. This compositional, literal joining is common in many languages and typical of literary/theme phrases, so the expression is immediately understandable from its parts.
Etymology
Love and loss shows a small story: love is the warm closeness between people and loss is the empty space when that closeness ends. Writers and artists put the two words together to show how 'joy' and 'sadness' often come at the same time. So love and loss means the shared experience of strong love and the pain after it ends.