sorrowfulness

Example Sentences

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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

When she looked around it was with a sorrowfulness as of farewell.

From Nocturne by Swinnerton, Frank

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

The mistake I had made in my blindness, the sorrowfulness of it, the pain I must give, the mischief it might do, I saw it all at once.

From Daisy in the Field by Warner, Susan