sorrowfulness
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Although such sorrowfulness might send Ward to Spotify, Cooper believes this kind of event can actually increase loyalty to radio.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2022
The pervading atmosphere of sorrowfulness in much of Josquin’s music, whether applied to sacred music or secular songs of unhappy love, is typical of his strife-filled time.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
There the idiot sat, portrait in hand, encountering me with a look of unutterable sorrowfulness.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various
My heart went out with a sweet sorrowfulness for that poor general or for the folk he bethreatened.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell.
From Nocturne by Frank Swinnerton
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