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
As she descended into the valley and the open plain beyond her sorrowfulness fell away from her.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
They combine rare excellences; the concentration, the finish, the gravity of a man’s thought, with the tenderness, the insight, the constitutional sorrowfulness of a woman’s—her purity, her passionateness, her delicate and keen sense and expression.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
O people! hasten, hasten, do not buy His woeful wares; the bird of grief doth brood There where his heart should be; and far away There mourns long sorrowfulness this happy day.
From Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. by Walter De la Mare
