Sentence examples for sad work from inspiring English sources
There is sad work to be done and someone has to do it.
Families desperate to get on with the sad work of burying their dead, settling estates and managing life insurance policies would also be relieved.
Mr. Abu Ghosh (he adopted as his last name the name of the town where his family lived until they fled during the 1967 war) considers these printing jobs "sad work, but I am honored to do it".
"Rent," for all its joyousness and generosity, is a terribly sad work; two very lovable characters die and another is ill, and seeing the show this time I felt that sadness acutely.
Occasionally yet far too often, it is because a sex worker was brutally attacked, raped or even murdered: the Sex Workers Outreach Project USA does the sad work of memorializing the dead.
I'm just saying if you think you're sad, work out why you're sad, stop doing the thing that is making you sad and, hopefully, things will get better from there.
At the Huffington Post, David Finkle, who praises it as "possibly Philip Roth's saddest work of art," nonetheless doubts that it has "any larger implication".
I love "The Lusty Men," Ray's saddest work, and, like every viewer before me, I am felled by the beauty of the shot that finds Mitchum — a rodeo rider — limping amid gusts of trash through a vacant arena, with the sharp, heartbreaking light of late afternoon slicing in from the side.
Yet Henry James called it "the saddest work of art in the world," because it had for hundreds of years been on the verge of falling into invisibility.
One of the saddest works of art here is a painting by Albert Namatjira, who became famous in the 1950s as one of Australia's leading landscape artists.
The works that great composers have written to assuage suffering are miraculously varied, from the poignantly intimate, gently sad choral work "Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross," by the German Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz, to the gargantuan wail of abject loss and defiant affirmation that is Verdi's Requiem.
