Sentence examples for sharp sad from inspiring English sources

Suddenly the "we" is fractured into "they" and "I": "They smelled my difference — my sharp, sad, pansy scent".

He peers out from exhausted eyes in confusion and pain, and although his mind may still be fogged by alcohol, you have the sharp, sad sense that he's never before understood his own unhappiness with such piercing clarity.

My choices also include one novel – Neel Mukherjee's sharp, sad and lively A Life Apart (Constable) – and one book of short stories – Yiyun Li's Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (Fourth Estate).

It concludes poignantly: "Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain, And the glass that had screened our forms before Flew up, and out she sprang to her door: I should have kissed her if the rain Had lasted a minute more".

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Week after week, viewers have reveled in the sharp, sad, bittersweet and bitchy material that has been given to the show's impressive array of actresses.

There's a meta sub-plot about the squadron's heroic actions being adapted for the big screen with jabs made about the generic nature of Hollywoodised war films and Lee does deserve credit for not turning the project into American Sniper 2. But one feels as if there was a smarter, sharper, sadder film to be made here.

Her writing is funny and quirky and sharp and sad — calamity laced with humor — and full of quietly heroic characters who offer knowing Lorrie Moore-esque parenthetical asides.

By the time the manuscript went to the printer, it had been altered again, to the sharp and sad and perfectly balanced "Isn't it pretty to think so?" Early drafts of the book are well known to scholars, and are available at the Hemingway Collection, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston.

(It's the first of Mr. Silver's many sharp-tongued, sad-hearted comedies to do so).

Colbert will probably be remembered for coining the word "truthiness," but "samed" is the sharper and sadder bit of satire.