Sentence examples for sad contrast from inspiring English sources

In sad contrast, another brilliant winger wasn't capped again.

It was a sad contrast with the later work of his friend Cy Twombly.

In sad contrast to Rubens, Rembrandt received only one substantial commission from a court.

Yet the official inertia makes a sad contrast with private initiative.

More than that, it presents a sad contrast with some of the inclusivity and open debate at grassroots level.

Curators poking through were transfixed by the power and pathos of the contents, their ordinariness a sad contrast to the tangled aberrancy of the owners' lives.

Such a conflicted sense of obesity (blithely guzzling yet guilty and sad) contrasts curiously with Melissa McCarthy's undercutting of fat gags in the new comedy Spy.

Shelley himself terms The Cenci "a sad reality," contrasting it with earlier "visions... of the beautiful and just".

The U.S. automaker's sad story contrasted with happy reports on Wednesday of better-than-expected results from European car companies that are growing thanks to their aggressive expansion into emerging markets, increased sales of fuel-efficient models and effective cost cutting.

There was something so poignantly sad about the contrast between the Victorian and the modern day settings.

By way of sad but happy contrast, there are those writers whose work quietly marinated and matured in neglect.