heavy-heartedness

These writers also share a certain heavy-heartedness, in addition to gray Eastern European settings.

Nothing makes moroseness and heavy-heartedness in a house so fast as idleness.

She tried not to think of the blight which hung over her, but she could not throw off a sense of heavy-heartedness such as she had not experienced since the time when Lucy Warner had chosen to disbelieve her word.

I am low and depressed to-night; I scarcely know why: indeed, I have less reason than usual for heavy-heartedness.

He meant Henry V and all that, but I was ready – as dictated by folly, and the heavy-heartedness of youth – to do the lines spoken by Edgar to Gloucester at the imaginary cliff's edge in King Lear.