Sentence examples for sorrowful tale from inspiring English sources

"Do you know, I sometimes think it is," he says.For such a sorrowful tale, where almost no one is happy, "Toby's Room" is nevertheless an enthralling and uplifting read.

Mr. Strathairn, who received an Oscar nomination last year for his role as Edward R. Murrow in "Good Night, and Good Luck," unfolds his sorrowful tale by talking into a camera in a motel room.

Andrew Kirtzman, in his book, "Rudy Giuliani -- Emperor of the City," tells the sorrowful tale of Mr. Giuliani's lone black deputy mayor, Rudy Washington, who was given a special police identification badge after he described how he had been pulled over a couple of times (for no good reason) and insulted by police officers.

The band supplemented these older country standards and Dylan covers with a couple of contemporary country songs: Merle Haggard's maudlin convict's lament, "Life in Prison"; and Luke McDaniel's "You're Still On My Mind", a sorrowful tale of a heartbroken drunkard failing to find solace at the bottom of a bottle.

You know lots of cousins here who hate cousins there because they are Communist believers, and you hear endless sorrowful tales from mothers who can't get their children out of Cuba.

As Alex Ross observes in his study of modern classical music, The Rest Is Noise, the history of African American composition around the turn of the 20th century is full of sorrowful tales.

[C4.] A Good Wine for a Sorrowful Story SecretCellars.com, an Internet retailer of specialty wines, plans to award a $1,500 bottle of Screaming Eagle to the person who -- in 100 words or less -- writes the saddest tale of an Internet company gone sour.

But last week, the sorrowful story took a vile twist.

When she describes the effect of a folk tale about a sorrowful woman going about her chores in the kitchen, her words could speak for Hunt's disquieting novel: "It follows you out the door to your work or your rest then jumps into your head and runs around inside it like a spider".

In private, Tolkien amused himself by writing an elaborate series of fantasy tales, often dark and sorrowful, set in a world of his own creation.

Several other new tracks will likely be heard as ruminations on Usher's failed marriage: "She Don't Know," a "did he jump or was he pushed?" tale of temptation that features declarative horn bursts and a throbbing beat; the sorrowful adulterous confessional "Foolin' Around"; and "Guilty," a wildly catchy, synth-fueled defense of the louche life.