How To Use Sadness In A Sentence

Though there is ever-present sadness the poet still wishes to "whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Kazim Ali: From East Jerusalem to Ramallah
She leaned against the wall, anger and sadness welling up inside her as she thought about what had happened.
Now that grand finale will not happen, which must have induced sadness yesterday in all but the hardest of hearts. Times, Sunday Times
But the joy of that tends to become clouded by the extreme sadness of another Christmas without my sister.
Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him. Kate Saunders: Pictures From Tibet That Tell a Story of Courage

On the contrary, there is a vast shadow of melancholy, a painful sadness, doubt and cross-purpose, boldness at one moment and timidity at the next, a longing for solitude. Half a Rogue
We are all subject to the pain of loss, grief, sadness and even plain disappointment.
Yet you are never far from reminders of the sadness and regret that suffuses the mind of the composer.
With comedic moments as well as sadness, it's a nice mix with a great cast. The Sun
But the sadness was overpowering at times.
But far from a happy trip down memory lane, her memories of Ventry are coloured by sadness and tragedy.
Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
We confess with sadness that Christians and our institutions have too often scandalously failed to uphold the institution of marriage and to model for the world the true meaning of marriage.
Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
Those songs are so full of life and spirit here, it's impossible not to be swept up in their grandeur and occasional sadness and desolation.
handicaps a man's pow Sadness diminishes or er of action.
As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion.
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
Elaine gave him a slight smile but he could see the shadow of sadness in her eyes.
All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.
At the moment of judgement, some displayed surprise, some anger, others a heart-rending sadness.
this remark evoked sadness
A slide guitar is used on some of the tracks, while the songs maintain a definite tone of melancholy and sadness.
His insides aching with sadness, Arthur did as she'd requested and then perched on the edge of his aunt's bed.
It will be a moment of deep sadness that will, unless some bowlers of similar calibre are unearthed soon, herald Sri Lanka's slide down the world rankings.
Let's hope the bosses don't succeed in chivying post people in country districts, where the postie is the front line welfare person, taking the news of everyone ot everyone else - their sadnesses, illnesses, joys and delights. BBC Blog Network
As we have seen, emotionally autumn is a time to be aware of and release our sadness and grief.
Both deserve a big "bravo," especially considering that they managed to penetrate my Jin/Sun sadness long enough to empathize with them. 'Lost' Dueling Analysis: 'The Candidate'
A trace of sadness was barely audible in Cattia's flat voice, perhaps such a small sliver of one that only Tania really could pick it up.
A mood of frustration and intense sadness seems to emanate from him -- of which only I am aware. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
He shrugged, and his eyes glimmered slightly with an undetectable sadness.
Oracle smiled a weary smile with sadness in it. A Plague of Angels
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
You cannot appreciate happiness unless you have known sadness too.
The love poem has turned into something else with the death of the beloved, the acute sadness in the poem seeming to move it toward the elegy or threnody.
Now she couldn't look back and remember those times without forcing back tears, or battling a melancholy wave of sadness.
It's like you're trying to go about your life, and make dinner...but the roof is off of your house, and the walls are falling down." would thank her daughter -- she called six-year-old Matilda's "bravery and exuberance is the example that I take with me in my work and in my life" -- is a major development, though one that, presumably, did not come without a tinge of sadness. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll.
I didn't want to be just another man who added to the sum total of her sadness. Times, Sunday Times
Yet Joe's "sadness" is reserved only for John McCain. Joe's 'Sadness' - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
Sadness into the river upstream, I for who the desperate.
Although she doesn't know much about football, she understands his sadness.
At times her story is invigoratingly liberating, at others it's tinged with sadness.
The sadness is that there is only one more instalment, in Bangalore. Times, Sunday Times
The epilogue catches perfectly the endless withdrawing melancholy of summer evenings in the high north, when pleasure goes on so long it turns into an inexpressible sadness.
‘Mon demoiselle,’ Garnier said with the slightest hint of sadness, ‘Can you not be courteous to me for this one visit?’
The most that I felt was sadness. because as we watched him turn from a handsome black man into a freaky white woman it occurred to me that he was trying to completely irradicate the person that he had been. Goodbye Captain Eo
Stress is believed to impair one's ability to regulate moods and prevent mild sadness from deepening and persisting.
The steppe was a vast plain that shone with ponds and corkscrew rivers and evoked a wistful sadness. Wolves Eat Dogs
We feel great sadness when a person dies or is hurt on our land. Times, Sunday Times
And they'll go through stages of denial, anger and sadness. The Sun
A sort of sadness seemed to dawn on her face, but then she smiled again.
It's where every day, your duties can mean the difference between life and death, prosperity and pauperdom, happiness or sadness for thousands and thousands of people.
noise seems inappropriate at a time of sadness
Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life, and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. Sarah Dessen
Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life, and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. Sarah Dessen
Even a dizzy blonde like Marilyn suggests something more spiritual with the sadness lurking behind her baby blues.
In such cases, the depression often appears as extreme irritability and anger, rather than sadness.
While many virgins and singles reported unhappiness about the lack of sexual contact, some expressed a greater sadness about not having love or a relationship.
Her tendency to discover a touch of sadness had for the nonce disappeared.
‘Anger and sadness are not uncommon today to those who still care for the history of this marvellous city’, writes Llewellyn-Jones bluntly in the preface to this omnibus edition.
Now he was dead, and I could not get away from my sadness.
Pain & suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But far from a happy trip down memory lane, her memories of Ventry are coloured by sadness and tragedy.
The D minor Quartet is by far the most tragic of the six, with a piercing sadness that sometimes borders on gloominess.
I left my beloved profession abruptly in confusion and sadness-I have written of it previously.
The moment his feet stepped across the threshold the memories came flooding back like a floodgate had been opened, ironically causing simultaneous feelings of joy and sadness to nearly overwhelm him.
I feel a sense of deep sadness, verging on depression, about the situation in Asia.
I frowned as they departed, and turned to my mother and father, sadness blearing up my eyes.
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Doesn't this invalidate people that are feeling other things such as grief, sadness, loss, anger right now?
News of his death has caused deep sadness among all who had the pleasure of knowing him.
The broad projecting brow seemed too heavy for its underwork; and by its depression, gave a look of sadness to the countenance, till excited animation raised the eye, beaming vivacity and strength. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
It is not just sadness in such a situation, it is appalling, gratuitous cruelty. Times, Sunday Times
You cannot appreciate happiness unless you have known sadness too.
He was in his thirties and his death at such a young age cast a pall of sadness over the area.
It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Friends learned of Patricia's death with much regret and sadness.
We note with sadness the death of the former Springbok loosie at the far-too-young age of 39.
All the songs are meditative and laced with humour and sadness.
I sensed both untruth and a terrible sadness in him as his dark eyes filled with a rare compassion. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
With a heavy sag of his whole body, his expression turned to one of deep sadness.
But amid the jostling crowds of fans scrambling for tickets, the atmosphere was tinged with sadness. Times, Sunday Times
Her artificial gaiety disguised an inner sadness.
He smiled, his familiar smile of self-mockery, but to Joanna, it was unexpectedly suggestive of sadness. HERE BE DRAGONS
Still she was glad to have seen them all again, though a tinge of sadness mixed itself with her pleasure. North and South
As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion.
His speech struck a note of sadness when he mentioned those who had died in the war.
Everybody gets feelings of sadness or depression and most of these are short-lived and tolerable.
It felt unsettling because we as the audience are accustomed to sadness, depression and irrational outbursts in typical movies that deal with death.
However, that elation has been mixed with some sadness as well.
It is graceful grief and sweet sadness to think of you, but in my heart, there is a kind of soft warmth that can't be expressed with any choice of words.
More recently, their books captured the unutterable sadness of the place.
But what the evening as a whole offers is a dual portrait of the sadness beneath the wainscoted traditions of public-school life. South Downs/The Browning Version – review
I could wallow in sadness and destroy my body through bad food and overeating, or treat our separation as an opportunity for a new beginning. The Sun
I am very happy, the temporary blip of sadness I felt the other day has long passed…
His entire statement had been quietly but firmly said in a state of shame and sadness, but this last line was full of adamancy.
It is graceful grief and sweet sadness to think of you, but in my heart, there is a kind of soft warmth that can't be expressed with any choice of words.
There was always some haunting sadness about her, like a shadow looming darkly behind her.
Her tendency to discover a touch of sadness had for the nonce disappeared.
The smile is faint, the light cloud, knead in sadness.
The album provides comfort without flinching from sadness and bitter fury.
Still she was glad to have seen them all again, though a tinge of sadness mixed itself with her pleasure. North and South
You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled The Masters of Venice. Terence Clarke: Masters of Venice, at The de Young Museum, San Francisco
It was a moment of intense joy and deep sadness. Times, Sunday Times
It feels like a sudden deluge of sadness at the cruelty of what happened. Times, Sunday Times
Those two lines of poetry express perfectly the profound sadness of loss.
This is one of those comedies that aims for small time targets, hits them and packs both sadness and affection in spades into its well edited 80 minute running time, without resorting to unnecessary sentimentalism.
But the spectacle can cloy and a sadness lingers after the pageant has moved on as householders emerge with shovels and brooms to sweep away all trace of their work.
Moodiness contributes to sadness and depression, unpredictable mood swings and fidgeting, especially among the opposite sex.
With a soft shake of his head at her obvious sadness, he turned to the register to tally up the tabs for the night and turn them in to the office.
Chances of that editorial being quoted tonight: vermillion.8.37pm: In a way, tonight's debate a time for sadness. GOP Fox News Iowa debate – as it happened
Depression is the result of all these hidden sadnesses, darkness, and feelings of guilt that have been buried deeply in the heart.
August 29th, 2009 11: 41 pm ET how fitting it was for him to be buried at night and it rain during his funeral this morning. it was very symbolic. the meaning behind the rain was that the state of massachusetts raining tears of sadness for losing a native son. the meaning of the burial not happening until sunset is it being the end of that generation of political service. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
In one lecture, he betrayed a sadness at what he saw as the decline of journalistic standards. Times, Sunday Times
Regret will be its base; sadness, not untinged by fear and perhaps irritability, will be its recognizable symptoms, moods to which she will become habituated - day by day and hour by hour.
Everyone seemed so happy, without a care in the world, polar opposite to the sadness, regret and fear raging inside him.
The familiar sadness of the ceremony was multiplied by its setting: a tawdry tar-paper barrack surrounded by strips of barbed wire which denied the parents of the honored soldiers the very freedom for which their sons had died.
Another year has passed and for some it brought joy and happiness, for others sadness and sorrow.
He rewinds the tape to replay a passage about a girl he was courting at the time, and the ineffable sadness that creeps over his face is heartbreaking.
He bowed his head in shame and sadness.
Could you know that your letter with its catalogue of advantages and arrangements must offend me as much as if, belies (let us hope) you and the woman of your love, I would pardon the affront of it upon us all, and ascribe the unseemly want of warmth to reserve or to the sadness which grips the heart when joy is too palpitant. The Kempton-Wace Letters
Some moments, he saw a trace of sadness that was quickly erased.
And yet there will be profound sadness, too. Times, Sunday Times
But amid the jostling crowds of fans scrambling for tickets, the atmosphere was tinged with sadness. Times, Sunday Times
Or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll.
Tomorrow, repair to her at the old place and see what sign she maketh to thee; for indeed thy gladness is near and the end of thy sadness is at hand. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Sadness over mining deaths I FEEL so incredibly sad about the miners who died and were hurt at Wearmouth Colliery.
And she told of her sadness that stores have stopped stocking the brand she likes best. The Sun
It is with feelings of deep sadness that we record the passing of Tommy Kenneally, Lyreattin, Cappagh at his home recently at the age of seventy.
News of Joan's sudden death was received with much sadness and regret in her home village.
You kept walking while you were deforming the charm of existence and growing seeds of sadness in their land Alan Singer: Teaching About Events in the Middle East: Lesson Plan
He finds talking about his fractured upbringing harrowing and there is a palpable air of sadness about him. Times, Sunday Times
The Abbot expressed his sadness over the fact that it would be impossible to go ahead with the project.
A cheerful voice sliced through the sadness as a sleek white Dormobile pulled to a splashy halt outside Sunny Dene. TICKLED PINK
The love poem has turned into something else with the death of the beloved, the acute sadness in the poem seeming to move it toward the elegy or threnody.
The palpable anger and sadness at a village fair, usually an occasion for gaiety, was a poignant commentary on the hypocritical times we live in.
Sadness is easier because its surrender.
I left my beloved profession abruptly in confusion and sadness-I have written of it previously.
Sadness converges into "Sweet," and the plaintive note of longing in the voice of the suppliant is inseparable from the persistent imperative in the reiterated "Be thou. Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
She felt elation and sadness all in the same instant.
Autumn is an honest month; it does not delude man like spring does! It shows him the dark face of life, the tragedy, the rot, the separation, the sadness! Mehmet Murat ildan
As the story unfolded throughout the past week, I experienced the gamut of emotions: shock, anger, sadness, disgust, confusion.
At first I think it is Portuguese fado; then I realize it is flamenco, which is also characterized by passion and profound sadness. Excerpt: By The Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
And now, as we see those fears removed, and those hopes reaching fruition, is it too soon, even on this day of humiliation and sadness, in view of all that has been done, -- in view of all that has been gained, and of all that has been Strength in Sorrow
One gets from this image a similar ‘patchwork’ promise of extended sadness, of mixed dreams realized in fragments with an earthy vigorous humor.
The purging of the sinful soul with hyssop, depicted by acciaccaturas and augmented seconds, leads into a lively, haunting dance as the broken bones of the text ` daunce awaie their sadness’.
Oracle smiled a weary smile with sadness in it. A Plague of Angels
Carve the happiness(joyousness) in the stone, and, write the sadness in the sand.
The picture evokes longing and sadness, loneliness and loss. Times, Sunday Times
An air of disbelief and sadness gripped the community.
The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end. Times, Sunday Times
Gregory smiled, the traces of sadness slowly vanishing.
Schultz is a man facing old age and his looming mortality with a dim sadness that seems to complement his general ennui.
Can't help sadness, then slowly learned to hide.
There's an unintentional feeling of sadness in Woody Allen's latest comedy.
I felt excitement and sadness in equal degree as I waved goodbye to my colleagues.
I considered specifically asking readers not to make hateful comments about the lady herself (and I'm pleased to note that the typical reply is one of "sadness" rather than something derogatory of her body habitus). How (not) To Make Macaroni Salad » E-Mail
His relief was tinged with sadness .
Love soaked in paper, deduce sadness.
His books are also meditations on sadness, a fact more poignant when he says that his books are always about him.
Jerry could feel her emotions surge, as her inner thought suddenly manifested feelings of remorse, regret, sadness, and guilt.
I could feel her trying to fight back the tears and sadness she had felt all these years, hidden behind a plastic smile put on so she wouldn't upset Dad.
Seated on a chair against the window, with her arm on the windowsill she was looking blankly at the flowing river, swift with the backward-rushing tide, struggling to see still the sweet face in its unreproaching sadness, that seemed now from moment to moment to sink away and be hidden behind a form that thrust itself between, and made darkness. IV. Maggie and Lucy. Book VII—The Final Rescue
Previous studies using brain scanners have tended to focus on negative emotions like fear or sadness. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
It is the latter, the Teutonic, that is in the minor key, and full of wistful sadness. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
Taking all of this into account, though there seemed to be an underlying sadness, I got the distinct impression that his bluff attitude was covering up something.
it is graceful grief and sweet sadness to think of you, but in my heart, there is a kind of soft warmth that can't be expressed with any choice of words.
It is natural to experience feelings of homesickness, awkwardness, or sadness in a new place.
No amount of discourse is sadness for the prelude.
For once, a summarist almost got it right with the jacket copy:Amidst disillusioned saints hiding in wrestling rings, mothers burnt by glowing halos, and a Baby Nostradamus who sees only blackness, a gang of flower pickers heads off to war, led by a lonely man who cannot help but wet his bed in sadness. The People of Paper
Her untimely death was occasioned by much shock and sadness among her many neighbors and friends.
It is the one great weakness of Dickens as a great writer, that he did try to make that sudden sadness, that abrupt pity, which we call pathos, a thing quite obvious, infectious, public, as if it were journalism or the measles. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
This awareness lends even the most caustic social commentary additional gravity, or sadness.
A cheerful voice sliced through the sadness as a sleek white Dormobile pulled to a splashy halt outside Sunny Dene. TICKLED PINK
I've made amends to my family; I bring them a lot of joy because I'm clean and I brought them sadness during my using.
What comes across in his later poetry is a great sense of sadness.
It is graceful grief and sweet sadness to think of you, but in my heart, there is a kind of soft warmth that can't be expressed with any choice of words.
Well, it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true that I have loved, and been loved. And that carries a weight of its own. A greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about earlier. In the end, I'll look back on my life, and see that the greatest piece of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces. Sarah Dessen
The most significant improvement was seen in symptoms of anhedonia, such as loss of energy, lack of motivation, emotional ‘numbness,’ sadness, inability to cope and worry.
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She didn't know what real happiness was, just as she had not known the profoundness of true sadness.
The smile is faint, the light cloud, knead in sadness.
My mothers passing filled me with a sadness that has been unparallel to anything else I have ever experienced. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Inspirational Women: Six Questions with Entrepreneur Aurea Crotty
When you need to tell, I am here;When you need a warm hug,I will be here;When you need someone to wipe your tears of sadness,I will here.
The Dutch-born abstractionist's death from a disease that eats memory is an irony that imbues ‘Erasure ‘with unbelievable sadness.’
He felt the waves of despair and overwhelming anguish that radiated until her fury drowned in the sadness.
It can mean that negative emotions such as anger, sadness, envy and guilt are seen as not just undesirable but unhealthy. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly Suzie and Matt's mother appeared beside the coffin cloaked in black sadness.
Feelings of overwhelming sadness or fear, or the inability to feel emotion are common in such people.
David had come to associate the noise of the Hoover with post-coital sadness.
The sadness and overwhelming glee of returning home climaxed in a series of events that were truly undescribable.
The first week or two I vacillated, like most people, between sadness and anger.
While we choose not to be labelled as such, it behooves us to reflect on the sadness and self loathing we experience as a result of performing acts of escapism.
Even in the bustle of the embassy, a small core of silence and sadness seemed to entrap the Ambassador and his wife. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
As if in pain, as if in despair, everyone felt the sadness and everyone felt fear as well.
I'm also hugely relieved that much of the fear and sadness wore away over time--or, anyway, they're not as everpresent-- while the bedrock of curiosity about life remains. "Hey babe, your hair's alright..."

How To Use Sadness In A Sentence

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