Sentence examples for abiding sadness from inspiring English sources

It is a cause for abiding sadness and anguish.

Like the Selected Letters, they catch his wit, and his abiding sadness.

Glass's trademark arpeggios and carved-in-granite chords generate a ritualistic, vaguely ancient air, circling back, time and again, to an abiding sadness.

It's as if Barlow himself had come close to something a consummation or an encounter with another realm of being but left with a mystery, and an abiding sadness.

Although it was always laced with comedy, her work was also imbued with an abiding sadness, a cleareyed understanding that independence can beget loneliness, that rigorous ideals and raised consciousnesses are not always good company at the dinner table.

That you did not live to see the second reinstallation of the galleries you had begun to plan, toward the end of that decade, is an abiding sadness to the many colleagues and friends who knew, admired, worked with, and loved you, and who miss you on this signal occasion.

Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar Colm Tóibín 288pp, Picador, £16.99 In the introduction to this perceptive collection of essays, Colm Tóibín admits to an "abiding fascination with sadness...and, indeed, tragedy".

For Oscar Wilde, with his extravagant public sufferings and real physical abasement, for the scholar F. O. Matthiessen, with his tortured closetedness and eventual suicide, Toibin -- who has acknowledged what he feels is the "abiding fascination of sadness... and, indeed, tragedy" -- clearly has great sympathy in his essays.

There is an abiding melancholy in most of the lives she depicts here, a sadness that is seldom relieved by irony or humor.

And sadness.

Poverty is an abiding theme.