Sentence examples for sad matters from inspiring English sources

He is a solitary type, a kind of loner who can make you laugh or smile about his misfortunes, and that allows me, through him, to touch on sad matters — but always with a light hand, without melodrama or sentimentality, because Doinel has a kind of courage about him.

You know, this is a very sad matter to me personally.

One way or another, this sad matter will linger in the New York consciousness for some time.

At best, such cooperation has been inconsistent in the past, a sad matter for many of the devoted.

"This is a very sad matter," said Mr. Zeffirelli, with the collar of his overcoat turned up against the wind, a thin Italian cigarette between two fingers.

For the local bishop now to strip Notre Dame of its right to call itself Catholic would be a just and formal recognition of a sad matter of fact: Notre Dame is a secular institution, and has been so for decades.

There's no point in it anymore for me, and I get no satisfaction from trying to do it.' He says this without bitterness or regret, but with a sad matter-of-factness as ingrained as the lines on his face.

This novel is not the sort of genre that I would usually choose because I am not a huge fan of the often sad subject matter of Michael Morpurgo books or the animal-based stories of Lauren St John, and they are both listed in the blurb – but I am extremely glad that I persisted with this book because I grew to love it as the novel went on.

It also sounds more joyful than "Emotion," despite its generally sadder subject matter.

Rather, I want to focus on the sincerity of her statements--the way that they speak some crumb of truth to the world we live in--no matter how sad, no matter how pitiful.

"In this wholly negative race, that sad distinction matters".