Sentence examples for sad string from inspiring English sources

Along the way he has had a sad string of maladies: tendinitis, a torn ligament, broken ribs, bruised buttocks.

Now there is another gaping hole in the neighbourhood and a sad string of former customers visiting the remains.The owner, George Koulmentas, only the latest in a series of owners called George, had run the restaurant for 22 years.

The next camp, in Wisconsin, had a sad string of eight horses and a small riding ring - you had to hike through the woods to get to the barn.

Just when optimism about America was flowing across the globe came the stunning corruption accusations in Illinois the latest in the sad string of examples of the U.S. failing to live up to its national ideals.

Towards the song's conclusion, there is a "sad" string arrangement and an electronica-influenced "triumphantly striding beat".

Walsh's case is just the latest in a long and sad string of plagiarism cases ruining promising careers.

Certainly, he returns explicitly to the sound of Urban Hymns on his fourth solo album: neat, sad strings, unhurried percussion and his mellifluous foghorn of a voice.

A more complex advertisement might start out with something negative about the opposing candidate, requiring 10 seconds of downbeat music — "Sad strings: 'Under bad candidate, this happened,' " he suggested — before a transition to a more upbeat, aspirational melody.

Her ideas are clever - Daydream and Saunter's weary battle between sad strings and stinging trumpet reflects the conflicting demands that mark the end of love - but each poetic vignette melts into the next, the complicated melancholy blotting out the details.

"Deceptacon" contains a "peculiar set of lyrics, floating on waves of reverb, sad strings and icy keyboards" Rogers said that "It's an unshowy meditation the shallowness of fame, with a fantastic, mournful outro".

As the piece is often stirring or sad, the strings out-rank the brass and woodwind; I would have liked to hear more from the less strident corners of the ensemble.