Sentence examples for a thread of sadness from inspiring English sources

Though the book is a happy story, there is a thread of sadness woven throughout.

I sighed as I dragged my cursor over to the link, knowing full well what awaited me, a little thread of sadness knotting in my stomach.

What we said: Stylish, elegant, measured and held together with a thread of exquisitely reticent sadness … a rigorously intelligent and desperately sad movie.

Mia Hansen-Løve is an excellent film-maker, and this is a really good film: stylish, elegant, measured, held together with a thread of exquisitely reticent sadness.

Revisiting her books after her death, I was struck by their warmth, generosity and spiky humor, but I seemed to find a slender, darkening thread of sadness and disappointment and a tendency to see herself as older than she was (60, she wrote somewhere, was the beginning of "old age").

When this happens we have to look elsewhere for the picture of happiness we formed before we saw clearly the underlying thread of sadness inside those we love, all the while doling our light and love out to those lacking as if our supply were endless.

15 1 A THREAD OF GRACE, by Mary Doria Russell.

Is a thread of irony at work?

A thread of #Coachella highlights thus far.

Draw a thread of events together.

These emails are threaded together by a sense of sadness spiked with hopefulness.