Sentence examples for of pervasive sadness from inspiring English sources

Peter has dreamed about Adam every night since the event, dreams of pervasive sadness rather than fear; he had told me that he could not be afraid of his fate as Adam's father, even of being murdered by his son.

Yet, despite the pervasive sadness of Katrina, we were at this moment of new possibility.

The collection that grew out of his grief, The Cost of Seriousness (1978), renders her death in terms both direct and oblique, the pervasive sadness cracked with moments of raw misery, of reckoning, the more piercing for coming from a poet of Porter's cultivation, for whom the label "confessional" would generally be anathema.

The pervasive sadness and quiet of the crew's demise had a striking solemnity.

Individual disputes simmer quietly around the dining-room table.Despite some refreshing pockets of humour, this novel has a pervasive sadness.

The weekend hourglass is trickling down to its last bit of sand and you feel a pervasive sadness cascading over you.

There is a pervasive sadness among many of our youth which requires attention, and not just in the elementary grades or the Sandy Hook section of town.

A Separation is a portrait of a fractured relationship and an examination of theocracy, domestic rule and the politics of sex and class – and it reveals a terrible, pervasive sadness that seems to well up through the asphalt and the brickwork.

Both decisive and dejected, "Broken Man" communicates a pervasive sadness and an uncertainty about life that cut to the heart of memories and fears generated by Sept. 11.

He detected a pervasive sadness in the country.

This, Dreyfus and Kelly argue, has led to a pervasive sadness.