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His tone contrasted sharply with that of his co-defendant, Detective Gescard F. Isnora, whose testimony was heard last week and often seemed sorrowful and apologetic.

As Michael Wilson describes in a front-page article, his tone contrasted sharply with that of his co-defendant, Detective Gescard F. Isnora, whose testimony was heard last week and often seemed sorrowful and apologetic.

He seems sorrowful; his prevailing message is umbrage born of self-taught wisdom.

He'd hardly begun to tell them, and yet she seemed so sorrowful looking at him like that.

He congratulated his Labour opponent in Bradford West on her "remarkable victory", and seemed genuinely sorrowful that the Labour movement of which he saw himself as a part had suffered defeat nationally.

Of course, it's a pretty idealised version of the "male role" in sexual encounters too, since hardly anyone ever laughs in your face for flirting with them; they tend to be into you if they're not actually celibate or totally not-oriented-your-way and if they happen not to be attracted to you they mostly seem more sorrowful about it and disappointed in themselves than anything else.

Maybe it is the sunlight that pierces the stained glass, but this elaborate oddity of a church no longer seems such a sorrowful lone gesture.

She seemed very mysterious and sorrowful, it is one of my first memories of her.

Now, families and physicians seem to have gotten the sorrowful message: Dementia is a terminal disease.

But it is another quotation, from "Notes of a Native Son," cited in the show that haunted me as I left the theater: "Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law". Like so much in Baldwin's work, the words seem to have as much sorrowful pertinence today as they did then — and probably will 50 years from now.

Departing from his customary screen persona of eccentric hothead, Mr. Walken portrays Peter as a dignified, sorrowful peacemaker who often seems on the brink of tears.

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