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

So I urge thee not to allow the sorrowfulness of life about thee to depress thee.

From The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona by Marsland, Cora

Those who have fully realised the soul have never talked in mournful accents of the sorrowfulness of life or of the bondage of action.

From Sadhana : the realisation of life by Tagore, Rabindranath

We shall not rightly estimate the sorrowfulness of Christ's sorrows, unless we bring to our meditations on them the other thought of His joys.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander