Sentence examples for sad steps from inspiring English sources

But where the Elizabethans hymned the whiteness of the moon — "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!

"Sad Steps" is probably my favorite Larkin poem, and it is also one of his most characteristic.

But where the Elizabethans hymned the whiteness of the moon—"With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!

On the notice board I pin up bits and pieces, poems I like, Larkin's "Sad Steps", MacNeice's "The Sunlight on the Garden", my daughter Susanna's poem about her empty room, and the warning lines at the end of Vanity Fair: "Which of us is happy in this world?

"The deaths today represent a sad step backward for the reduction of suffering and for [building] confidence in the peace process," said Fabrizio Hochschild, the UN representative for Colombia.

The team leader, Rob Browning, said before the game that there was no talk of postponement, only the team going forward, one sad step and spike at a time.

"While Ms. Hurley more or less holds her own as a smart, flouncy babe, for Mr. Perry the movie is another sad step down from the plateau of the television series 'Friends' " (Stephen Holden).

While Ms. Hurley more or less holds her own as a smart, flouncy babe, for Mr. Perry the movie is another sad step down from the plateau of the television series "Friends".

"Even though coming to this place was kind of a sad step down, there was something about it that was good in the sense that it was real," Mr. Hartigan said.

In 2004, Cardinal Trujillo characterized a proposal in Spain to allow gay marriage as a "sad step," and when it was enacted the next year he urged civil officials to refuse to perform such marriages, even at the cost of their jobs.

"Closing the doors of Oak Ridge National Laboratory would be a sad step backward for the United States of America," Gore said.