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
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 Susan Warner
Pray, now," with a sort of sociable sorrowfulness, slowly sliding along the rail, "Pray, now, my young friend, what volume have you there?
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
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
