Sentence examples for on sadness from inspiring English sources

Lost Souls is, then, an album built on sadness.

Of necessity, this new life was founded on sadness and deceptions.

So the pervading feeling of the selection is melancholy, and revelations turn on sadness, or at best small joys.

Robert Burton's sprawling Anatomy of Melancholy is an intermittently helpful, but always involving, series of meditations on sadness and its alleviations.

(Nostalgic songs score equally with the purely hedonistic songs on positive feelings evoked, but the nostalgic songs also score much higher on sadness).

This album's roots lie deep in the Balkan tradition of sevdah, the urban folk music of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which touches on sadness, but is mostly about making love by moonlight.

That feeling also gives the movie a full-on sadness not found in the previous chapters, and her curiosity and maternal instinct mitigate some of the plus ca change resonance, especially since there is less of a community this time around.

And the look of sadness on his face.

As the first lady looked on, with sadness and without sentimentality, Obama spoke of Kennedy's love for his second wife, Vicki.

The local newsreader kept on commenting on the sadness of the events.

City Wrecker has a lovely, melancholy drifting quality that perfectly fits its lyric, a rumination on the sadness of moving on.