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Example sentences for: sorrowful

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He's both inside and outside the action: He knows when to rock your world and when to induce a state of sorrowful detachment.
"In voting No, they too will be expressing their desire for peace, and their sorrowful belief that it is not, in reality, on offer."
Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until "our investigation" (whatever that consisted of).
Furthermore, our gratitude to Longman and W9 for saying something about the size of their microstructures is offset by our sorrowful recognition of how little they say.
The address (Obras Completas, Aguilar, Madrid, 1963) is a 5,000-word virtuoso performance in which he describes duende variously as “the spirit of the earth,” with Dionysian roots, and as “the mysterious spirit of sorrowful Spain.”