Sentence examples for downcast feeling from inspiring English sources
DANJA, Niger — THEY straggle in by foot, donkey cart or bus: humiliated women and girls with their heads downcast, feeling ashamed and cursed, trailing stink and urine.
As the festival straggles toward its climax on Sunday evening, when a jury headed by Sean Penn will hand out prizes, a subdued, slightly downcast feeling is settling over the city.
I was feeling downcast by the time I reached the end.
The reason I'm feeling downcast now is that there are a lot of bad ones, and some good ones made bad by the way they try to make money.
"If you are feeling downcast in Athens, the villages, anywhere with this [economic] crisis, you come here and let off steam".
Later, Dr. Peale spoke for twenty or twenty five minutes, in the mode of the uplifting sermons that are his homiletic trademark, and, even, before he finished, the once-but-never-again-downcast-and-ensure-of-himself-man was feeling not only better but happy.
As I walked down the aisle in my white veil toward the crèche, eyes downcast in perfect humility, my arms aching with the weight of the plaster baby Jesus, I remember feeling exactly like the Mother of God and thinking, I am the star.
To the anxious literary festival audience member – and anyone else feeling downcast about the state of the short story today – I say, read Jon McGregor's new book.
Longing and melancholy seemed to have worked themselves into the very soil; the old road and the land around it seemed downcast, as if they'd had their feelings hurt by how much the people passing by did not want to be here.
The song is as downcast as its title suggests, utilizing the full sonic spectrum yet still leaving the listener with a feeling of corrosive emptiness.
