Sentence examples for tell sad from inspiring English sources

Truffaut used clever new techniques to tell sad, beautiful stories about doomed romances.

Dancers tell sad stories to haunting music by Elizabeth Swados and inventive choreography by Federico Restrepo.

"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings".

And what verse it is, not least to an adolescent craving tragic glamour: "Let us sit upon the ground, / And tell sad stories of the death of kings".

Say simply that the elderly Aegeon's first-scene monolgue, at long last grinding to a halt with the lines, "Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss... To tell sad stories of my own mishaps" is a dire foretelling.

What's my wife going to say?" The salesman thought of "Richard II": "My large kingdom for a little grave, a little little grave, an obscure grave; For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings".

Week by week, try this frame, try this shape, because we were writing excellent poems, not telling sad stories.

Ms. Briggs and her husband, an air-conditioner operator and musician, wrote hundreds of love songs, many telling sad tales.

Yiyun Li's Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (Fourth Estate) tells sad, graceful stories of love and savage loneliness, beginning with the haunting almost-novella-length "Kindness".

The gathered men and women told sad stories about the war and laughed at their own suffering in ways that I found incomprehensible.

Most of the songs, even those telling sad stories, sounded celebratory, with brisk Haitian rhythms and endlessly inventive vocal combinations: quasi-classical chorales, call-and-response, polyphony and oom-pahs, all communal and indefatigable.