Sentence examples for rather sorrowful from inspiring English sources

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"It has its old magic and a rather sorrowful background," he said.

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Ministers have decided that the best tone to take is "serious and sorrowful", rather than flippant mockery, hence Gove's tone.

I'd rather let pass in sorrowful silence the rest of the Broadway season's new plays in favor of celebrating the richness of the field Off Broadway, where the really exciting playwriting has been germinating for decades.

An empty treasury forced politicians to turn, in sorrowful confusion rather than ideological triumph, to the market.Politicians remain reluctant to reduce subsidies, relax rigid labour laws or reform the public sector.

(Alix swings between heroin and crack cocaine.) Ms. Hyatt's Digna radiates sweetness, sorrowful wisdom and rather frightening vulnerability.

There's more of a focus on celebrating rather than just having a traditional sorrowful service". She adds: "Many are starting such a business because they've experienced a dreadful funeral for a family member and thought, 'I can do so much better'.

No one but Lanthimos could adhere so loyally to the classical model of the tragic, yet the result treads close to monotony, and even to a kind of sorrowful sadism — on the whole, I'd rather not watch children, numb below the waist, crawling helplessly downstairs or being hauled along by their hair.

Everything about history that, from the very beginning, has been untimely, sorrowful, unsuccessful, is expressed as a face or rather in a death's head [Totenkopfe]" (OGT, 166, translation amended; GS 1.1, 343).

Instead, he lets the movement — weighted, sorrowful — speak for itself.

Construction was under way on the memorial, and the opening wasn't that far off, but rather than hover in St . Louisand fret, micromanaging the development of their sorrowful mall, as she'd started to think of it, Ida stayed in Chicago and took walks along the lake.

Even if he goes into the Chamber intending to be serious and sorrowful, the Tory leader can, when his blood is up, grow rather jeery and unpleasant.

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