Sentence examples for concealed sadness from inspiring English sources

"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.

But it was hard to conceal sadness.

Siân Brooke wanes with extraordinary subtlety: she's at her most captivating when most concealing her sadness.

The German child's mother is especially distressed by this, but attempts to conceal 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.

Luxury and privilege often concealed an underlying sadness.

Elizabeth Berrington's Marge meanwhile uses relentless busyness to conceal her own sadness in not having children.

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.

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).

In the summer of 2004, Andy Martin, a colorful Web columnist and sometime Republican candidate for state office, put out a press release announcing his sadness at having to "expose" Barack Obama as a "Muslim who has concealed his religion".

Sadness is the most mistreated, most shameful emotion it's seen as weak, vaguely feminine, something that needs to be concealed or ignored or simply wiped out.