Sentence examples for sad encounter from inspiring English sources

There is something quietly amazing in the tense, sad encounter between Clive and Theo in the British POW camp in 1918, as well as more than 20 years later in Theo's extraordinary closeup monologue about his disgust with Nazified Germany.

Another young couple had no idea who Ray was... the saddest encounter of all".

One of our saddest encounters on this win-a-trip journey with Erin was with a 10-year-old boy named Muhammad Bako who had already lost toes and fingers to leprosy.

Bill has been released on parole, and he wanders across the country, from a sad sexual encounter (with Charlotte Rampling) in a hotel to an awkward reunion with his elder son, Billy Chris Marquettee), in Billy's college dorm.

The encounter is sad but not poignant.

When we encounter something sad, the first reflex is to resist.

And some of Harper's encounters with sad, lonely men are more plausible than others.

At one point, he was suicidal, but wanted to lose his virginity before dying; after a sad, somewhat cruel failed sexual encounter, he had a failed suicide attempt on a train track.

Brown documents his sad, curious and disappointing paid encounters — always amusing — along with his abundance of sweet, satisfying and successful ones.

I was sad because the woman I encountered is the reason so many mamas are stressed out with worry that they're doing a bad job as parents.

The sad reality of many group encounters is that dispiriting phenomenon where the accumulation of minds and souls has a paradoxically inverse effect on everyone's general intelligence and morality.