Sentence examples for sorrowful at from inspiring English sources

It framed a face that was beautiful and sorrowful at the same time.

What really resonates in the book, what makes it so sorrowful at times, is Hamilton's evocation of all the young and old hopefuls who have just enough ambition to push their lives past the point of no return.

Findlay was sorrowful at the prospect of switching horses away from Nicholls, which he described as "something that no sane man would normally do", but denied any feeling of regret at the loss of his half of Denman.

Sorrowful at first, he quickly cheers up once he realizes he can now do whatever he pleases.

The series blended graphic sex scenes with a plodding, sorrowful look at marriage and its discontents.

The deaths are the fourth sorrowful incident at the university this year.

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

When the boys, the morning after the party, run into the girls in a mall, and the couples pair off and go in opposite directions, Seth casts a sorrowful glance at the receding Evan.

I'd have to issue tickets.' She laughs again, a hoot of merriment - she has this tremendous ability to be funny and caustically cheerful and scornfully upbeat, and yet completely sorrowful, all at the same complicated time.

As a Buddhist and a believer in karma, Sunee accounts for her sorrowful state (at least out loud, to the Western journalist whose reasons for asking seem to flummox her) as payback for something she did in a past life.

Far from taking offense at either these descriptions or Mr. Daisey's admitted fabrications, Mr. Wozniak was  moved and disturbed by the revelations in the show, expressing a sort of sorrowful awe at how the company he helped create has evolved.