Sentence examples for sorrowful state from inspiring English sources
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.
Such is the sorrowful state of Democracy in what is referred to as "the greatest Democracy in the world".
It is not only the rangers in Tsavo or those who knew Satao who are sorrowful, all of Kenya is in a state of deep grief.
Yet the challenge presented by ISIS (which now wishes to be known as the State of the Islamic Caliphate) underlines the sorrowful condition into which Arab politics has sunk.Why is the Arab world a weary and wearying mess?
Seeing through the mechanisms of state too late, this Richard made a sorrowful show of himself but also a puckishly dissident one.
The sorrowful widower, unable to bear the thoughts of a single state, set off the next morning, and was married to a woman at Linton.
Paul Evans of Rolling Stone called the EP "darkly gorgeous", and Steve Huey stated "Jar of Flies is a low-key stunner, achingly gorgeous and harrowingly sorrowful all at once".
Added to the state constitution in 1952, the oath was designed, like so many other legal measures of that sorrowful era, not to protect the nation against real subversion, but to frighten, intimidate, and punish individual citizens for exercising their constitutional right to question and criticize the government.
The sorrowful satchel was the mascot of a citizens' rebellion against a proposed school restructuring in the city-state.
2. Rare, archaic: sorrowful.
