Sentence examples for sad acknowledgment from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cullum's genial figure concludes his celebratory aria with a sad acknowledgment that perhaps even the past isn't what it used to be.

In the end Mr. Cohen and the principal actors reveal the seriousness at the play's center, its sad acknowledgment of the often destructive illogic of the heart.

There is rueful irony there, as there is in nearly everything Jack says, but there is also something more: a sad acknowledgment of how far the town has fallen away from its founding spirit.

"I think it really stayed with him," Robarts said, in sad acknowledgment of how all of Indiana seemed to turn on Reed, how even last week's reports — a player with all the figurative heart in the world dying much too young of a faulty one — identified Reed almost singularly as the player choked by a coach who had become or always was emotionally unfit.

From 2004's Sideways to 2013's Nebraska, Payne is the great chronicler of the middle-aged man in crisis, whether it's George Clooney's character's sad acknowledgment of his failures as a father in The Descendants (2011) or Warren Schmidt's (Jack Nicholson) raging against the dying day in About Schmidt (2002).

"It's sad that acknowledgment of a creator is absent in the examination of such strange and wonderful animals.

It tells the story of John Bosco McLane, who, in his lonely cottage on a cold winter night, is writing, with sad humility but forthright acknowledgment, the history of his romantic and erotic failures.

Still, "the special poignancy of the movie, the happy-sad feeling it leaves in its wake, comes from its acknowledgment that the satisfaction of these aspirations is usually transient, even as it can sometimes be transcendent".

Still, he wrote, "the special poignancy of the movie, the happy-sad feeling it leaves in its wake, comes from its acknowledgment that the satisfaction of these aspirations is usually transient, even as it can sometimes be transcendent".

The special poignancy of the movie, the happy-sad feeling it leaves in its wake, comes from its acknowledgment that the satisfaction of these aspirations is usually transient, even as it can sometimes be transcendent.

Mr. Beck is among those thanked in Mamet's acknowledgments for helping free him from "the bemused and sad paternalism" of the liberal airwaves.