Sentence examples for mournful of from inspiring English sources

He had promised not to take political potshots on Sept. 11, that most mournful of anniversaries.

The tale of the Addergoole Fourteen is the most mournful of mournful Irish tales, starting with seeming good fortune.

For the first time there was a vivid sense, simultaneously ecstatic and mournful, of the violent beauty of spirituals and their influence, why they might still matter.

Many of them are especially mournful of the growing gap between the pay of the chief executive and that of the average employees.

And it's radically angry about grievous and hypocritical, callous and cruel and racist departures from American promise, as well as radically mournful of the lives lost to gun violence and to gang violence.

I was mournful of the fact I was not as physically close to the people I loved – everyone was trying to figure out who they were, trying to make enough money to live.

Blue Jasmine is one more celebration of the mournful heroines of the 20th century; Sylvia Plath, Marilyn Monroe and several of my most promising friends who died young.

It is exceptionally powerful, full of the mournful narrative of middle Canada, pine forests and snow and the memory of watery sunlight.

I recently went through the heavy and mournful experience of making end-of-life decisions for a close family friend.

He's got more of a mournful kind of vibe.

The whimpering grew louder, going up in pitch, more aggravated, and expanded with additional participants, sort of a mournful chorus of Las Lloronas.