"Silent Night" must just be the bleakest Christmas carol of the lot, and let's be honest, the entire canon is one big lachrymose, sentimental bundle of barely concealed sadness.
The German child's mother is especially distressed by this, but attempts to conceal her sadness.
Siân Brooke wanes with extraordinary subtlety: she's at her most captivating when most concealing her sadness.
If there's a crowd, one person is certain to be concealing a sadness, another will have abandoned a dream, at least one will be a special agent for his own cause.
Elizabeth Berrington's Marge meanwhile uses relentless busyness to conceal her own sadness in not having children.
Luxury and privilege often concealed an underlying sadness.
Orson Welles's penultimate film, from 1975, is a playful, personal essay, full of worldly cynicism and twinkly-eyed charm, a film about illusions with apparently no illusions of its own,but one that conceals a wintry sadness about Welles's life in the make-believe and trickery of the movies.
But the time for courage was when she was sick, when I took care of her and saw her suffering, her sadness, and when I had to conceal my tears.
In Seven Pounds, he glumly performed random acts of kindness to strangers, all the while concealing some deep personal sadness ("I haven't treated myself very well," he confessed).
Participants in the NC wanted to conceal their moods and feelings (50%) because they sometimes wanted to hide feelings such as anger, sadness, or nervousness (Table 1).
