Sentence examples for mild sadness from inspiring English sources

"mild sadness" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing an emotion that someone is feeling that is not particularly strong or intense. For example, "John was feeling a mild sadness about not being able to visit his family this year."

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The destruction of the soul and mind of an 11-year-old girl should be a shattering thing to watch, but "The Bluest Eye" evokes only a mild sadness, not a wrenching sorrow.

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As for myself, for more than 20 years I have been eagerly anticipating their approach, have delighted in their duration and felt a certain small sadness in their mild, melting withdrawals.

Paul looks at Guy, who is gazing at the screen with an odd expression that might be sadness, resignation or even mild amusement.

When I got past the initial mild indignation, and the low-level sadness at the thought of being on my own this year, I amused myself by devising the most depressing fantasy Christmas imaginable.

There was a mild fear of death, but the sadness was so intense it negated the fear.

Should I stop hating my own nostalgia, which places me here on the corner of my sadness so many years later on a mild evening, looking up into lit windows, dinnertimes not my own?

The sadness about Adam's eruption, and Ms Burley's eccentric bullying of a mild voting-reformer protester, is that before these self-inflicted wounds Sky was having the best of it.

This indicates that depressive symptoms present themselves in a certain sequence so that in a mild form the dominant symptoms are tiredness and subjectively reduced ability to work and when the severity increases feelings of sadness, guilt and irritability occur.

And sadness.

Honour sadness.

Unspeakable sadness.

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