Sentence examples for sad recollection from inspiring English sources

But Barber's keen sensitivity toward Agee's poignantly sad recollection of childhood makes this work seem utterly authentic.

Soraya Mafi sings Sister Genoveva's sad recollection of her favourite lamb in terms that suggest that all of these women may have had their babies taken away from them.

With reference to your recent coverage of the Bradford City fire and Martin Fletcher's book about it ('No accident': stadium fire that killed 56, 16 April, and several subsequent reports), 11 May will see the 30th anniversary of this tragic event, which relatives and survivors will no doubt wish to acknowledge by private grief and sad recollection.

The ambivalent, fervid father-son relationship of the two men; the mixture of sharp marital protectiveness and subliminal resentment of Margrethe; the dizzying swings between hotly debated historical abstractions and sad recollections of personal details that evoke a lifetime of attrition: Mr. Bosco, Ms. Brown and Mr. Cumpsty summon all this with a passion that scalds.

Today, it was widely noticed that 751 shut its doors for what seems like "forever" and now, with a gasp of nostalgia and sad, dark recollection, we will air out its skeleton-jammed closet.

The sad part is, both sides say, the recollections are getting fuzzier with each passing day.

Ms. Kendrick, in her own interview for the film, alternates between smiling recollections of her childhood friend and sad eyes as she recalls Melissa's downward spiral.

Life is never so sublime or sad as it is in art and in the recollection of a long-ago, wished-for childhood.

Grădinaru and essayist Mircea Moț analyzed the volume as a fundamentally sad text, in stated contrast with its common perception as a recollection of joyful moments: the former focused on moments which seem to depict Nică as a loner, the latter highlighted those sections which include Creangă's bitter musings about destiny and the impregnability of changes.

Ms. Redgrave's imagined memoirs of her grandmother's life are interspersed with recollections of her own, as she notes some sad correspondences.

Bellow's novels have often been rooted in memoir - most strikingly, his sad comedy Humboldt's Gift (1974) was based on his recollections of doomed poet and alcoholic Delmore Schwartz.