Sentence examples for sad acceptance from inspiring English sources

The initial shock has worn off, and sad acceptance is setting in.

As we marched, some brave spirit relieved the monotony by plunging into the pool below a fountain, but in general the mood was a sad acceptance that the team simply had not been good enough.

A horribly sad acceptance, in lives that appeared to be going nowhere, that they could have ended up as easily here, in this court at two o'clock in the morning, as anywhere else.

1937 France Cancels Chapel Offer NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum began to rearrange its cloisters of medieval art at Fort Tryon Park today [May 25] in sad acceptance of the French government's decision that they never would house the famous flamboyant Gothic Chapel of St. Hubert as a gift to John D. Rockefeller Jr. Negotiations to bring the little church to America had been canceled by France.

He doesn't flinch from physical decline, but he also makes it clear why he's damn well carrying on, anyway: "The amount I can exercise is going downhill, as is the efficiency of the whole process, but what're you going to do?" Few things I've read have moved me as deeply as Murakami's sad acceptance of his slowing pace, coupled with his determination to run just as much, all the same.

Whereas the roughed up Rodriguez left the field in tears, with the sort of sympathy from Brazil's players they had pointedly declined to offer him during the game, Neymar left on a stretcher and to the sad acceptance that his World Cup, if not Brazil's, was over.

Because I'm a sad man searching for acceptance.

Dr. Keene later described it as his first encounter with Japan's delicate sense of beauty, and its acceptance that life is fleeting and sad — a sentiment that would captivate him for the rest of his life.

Participants are taught how to cultivate direct experiential awareness, together with an attitude of non-judgmental acceptance, towards whatever is present (including sad mood, which in previously depressed patients is likely to trigger patterns of global negative self-referent thinking).

The film inevitably rested to a considerable degree on the quality of its central performance: this was a tour de force, making it all the sadder that its harrowing quality denied the film acceptance by a wide audience.

And the European left's sad hostility to scientific tinkering with crops may slow acceptance of biofortification.