Sentence examples for sad context from inspiring English sources

Blackstar's greatness doesn't depend entirely on its codedness, on its sad context.

Results suggest that exaggeration and suppression not only have very different behavioral manifestations, but physiological outcomes as well when utilized during a sad context.

A 2×2 mixed-design experiment (happy vs. sad expression by happy vs. sad context) (N= 24) was conducted with a talking-head agent presenting happy and sad novels to users.

(Soldiers overseas and their families back home could only dream of a white Christmas together because they were separated by thousands of miles; this knowledge gives the tune a yearning, sad context modern listeners might otherwise overlook).

Separate PPIs were carried out for angry vs. neutral, sad vs. neutral, or angry vs. sad contexts, using either the right or left amygdala seed.

And while their friends say that this does not excuse criminal behavior, it does place them in a sadder context.

Siddal's role as an embittered, wheedling consort is all the more sad in the context of occasional letters showing her to have, when not drugged and needy, a wicked sense of humour - unlike her pre-Raphaelite friends, who took themselves rather seriously.

He is evidently fixated on winning at any cost, and for the university to stand behind him in this context is sad, to say the least.

Normal sadness is defined as context specific, its intensity corresponds to the reason for being sad, and sadness diminishes when its reason is brought to an end [ 1].

But Yankee fans capable of viewing the sad event in a wider context have already put their disappointment behind them.

That's why home, as Philip Larkin put it in an altogether cosier context, is so sad: "A joyous shot at how things ought to be,/ Long fallen wide".