Sentence examples for this sad world from inspiring English sources

By Barry Spacks The New Yorker, June 12 , 1978P. 38 Lost in sadness in this sad world, View Article By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By Malcolm Gladwell By Blythe Roberson.

A mournful lullaby, "Goodnight Old World," looks to a newborn child to "soften the sorrow" of "this sad world"; Ms. Harris now has a young granddaughter.

Mr. Frey, as you may have heard, hit the jackpot with his best-selling memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," a tale of how he overcame drug addiction, alcoholism and a criminal past to find his rightful place in this sad world.

Theologian Dale Allison views the mention of "this sad world" as a further reference to the essentially "tragic" nature of human existence, after "All Things Must Pass" and in anticipation of later Harrison songs such as "Stuck Inside a Cloud", in that "notwithstanding all the success and adulation", ultimately, "we are all alone".

The old term ukiyo, which had formerly meant the "sad world" of Buddhist stories, now came to designate its homonym, the "floating world" of pleasure; this was the chosen world of Saikaku's hero, Yonosuke, who became the emblematic figure of the era.

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His young sister, a tiny baby, suffered from Meth addiction, and was our first excursion into that sad world.

It's all distinctly un-Cronenberg, and the pace is mighty deliberate, but the film's scrupulous attention to the look and feel of this gray, sad world (grayer and sadder yet in Spider's mind) becomes, after a while, weirdly moving; a Beckett-like melancholy hangs in the air like the fumes from the gasworks that dominates the characters' landscape.

Yet somehow in this sad new world of partisan politics and endless rancor, even the Violence Against Women Act has become a political football.

Anyway, London's one of the busiest hubs of this "sad, sick world", and as anyone who lives here knows its buses and tubes are regular arenas for all the sadness and the sickness that pours out of it.

And unlike the glitzy casinos, greyhound tracks offer a sad world of sticky escalators, grubby walls and horrible food.