Sentence examples for great sad from inspiring English sources
But fans of the century's best baritone suspected, indeed hoped, that they were from Schubert's great, sad "Winterreise", the Lieder cycle he made his own.
To readers, the charm is in his relentless honesty and the creeping melancholy of "the great sad cathedral that is New York City".
They've written a great, sad song about Brexit, British Values, their version of a national anthem, which is quite shocking, but so truthful.
Geryon is now G, still a cattle-herder (of sorts) if not much of an artist, though he reads Proust and Daniil Kharms, the Russian Soviet-era surrealist-absurdist. Herakles is now called Sad But Great — "Sad," for short.
R. The House of Mirth Edith Wharton's great, sad novel about New York society in 1905 comes off grippingly despite the miscasting of Gillian Anderson as Lily, Wharton's wronged heroine.
He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive; an awe-inspiring sort of patience and power to endure, proper to granite but uncanny in flesh and blood.
It is right there in the voiceover, which, in a weird fourth-wall break, Tyrion seems to hear as he looks askance at the rocking of the cabin, and then at us, with great big sad droopy puppy dog eyes.
The dance, however, is a solo of disillusion as Ms. Kawano gives an electrifying performance worthy of a great sad-faced clown.
It's a commemorative tradition that seems to be pressed into greater, sadder service every year.
Paralleling our assessment points for concreteness of identification, change in sadness indexed the extent to which participants reported greater sadness after the sad mood induction than after the happy mood induction, and change in happiness indexed the extent to which participants reported less happiness after the sad mood induction than after the happy mood induction.
This is as far as Mr. Barden goes in speculating on the shooter as he finds his family and community struggling through what feels to be a darkly upended life of great and sad unknowns.
