Sentence examples for state of sadness from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Sam and his concrete state of sadness are ontologically fundamental and the fact that Sam is sad is not ontologically fundamental.

He sinks into a state of sadness and begins to drink away their savings.

Separated from Lady Isabella once again, Mary sank into a state of sadness, exacerbated by the passing of the Exclusion bill in the Commons.

It is then not only OK for your children to see you in a state of sadness, you are also sending the necessary message that grieving is part of the healing process for adults.

One day her state of sadness gripped her in a most unyielding chokehold as she sat in her car in a busy parking lot, feeling as though she had become a prisoner to hopelessness.

"Her mother and I are in a state of sadness," said Nassema's father.

Constant communication can create a false sense of friendship and also undermine the development of coping skills: the ability to tell the difference between normal states of sadness or anxiety that pass and a true state of emergency.

Such mindless acts of horror don't often happen in Hobart and people in the city had spent most of the day wandering around in varying states of sadness.

Not knowing why we behave the way we do, when we behave so unusually compared to everyone else, can sometimes be devastating to our mental health and too often leads to varying states of sadness, loneliness, apathy, and depression.

Although a depression is certainly undesirable and maladaptive, normal and pathological mood states of sadness lie on a continuum and may actually play an important role in adaptive behavior (e.g., Andrews & Thomson, 2009; Mayberg et al., 1999).

Furthermore, those in a state of severe sadness would probably lack the high, hopeful motivation that characterizes Barlow's anxiety patients.