sorrowful
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In solitary old age, Ondro has finally accepted his sorrowful calling as the memory keeper of the men who died.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Figueroa, 29, lived up to his moniker, 'Heartbreaker', on a deflating and sorrowful night for 'Wrecking' Ball and the Liverpool crowd.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani described his passing as "sorrowful", calling him a "noble and thoughtful actor of Iranian cinema" in a post on X.
From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025
Tonally, this steady and powerful film is everything the original program wasn’t: hesitant, sorrowful and compassionate for every human being onscreen.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025
She looked around, but all she could see were wide eyes and hopeless faces, pale faces, dark faces, old faces, young faces, all the dead cramming and crowding, close and silent and sorrowful.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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