About a seal: "There is something sorrowful in its wet brown head, Hannah thinks".
The marks looked like welts, like someone had whipped her, and even though I knew it was only from sitting and reading Us magazine, I instantly felt something sorrowful and wounded about her, like there was always smoke in her eyes, smoke only she could smell, or else she was allergic to something that was there around us but that I was too crude to sense.
There was something faintly sorrowful about the image, which saw Rouhani sat in an empty room opposite a TV joined only by a bowl of nuts and a box of tissues.
It's also a record by a mature woman who knows something of solitude: sorrowful yet finally affirmative, in the way that Joni Mitchell can be.
It's the first hint that summer is nearing an end, and I feel it in my bones, something profound and sorrowful in a way I can't really explain.
Perhaps, though, I had imagined something like kindness from the sorrowful soul who called to enquire about Mom night after night.
"The goal is to open the center so air and light can get in," Joanie tenderly advises him, her tone suggesting that Clive needs to do something similar with his own sorrowful past.
His face, she goes on, was "more arresting than beautiful, his expression worried and pitying and generous; instead of a look of doggy excitement it was something more tender, a little sorrowful, as if he were viewing with charity and resignation the whole enterprise of living and striving and hoping".
I, you, we can make history, he says, by turning the nation's sorrowful racial narrative into something radiant and hopeful.
Cheyenne has a handful of friends — including a moody Goth girl played by Eve Hewson, whose father is the real-life Dublin rock star Bono — but there is nonetheless something out of place about him, an aura of sorrowful estrangement that is not just a matter of appearance.
Though stung and sorrowful, this wayward king also appears to be experiencing something like relief at being able to drop a pose unnatural to him.
