Sentence examples for unhappy creature from inspiring English sources

Poor unhappy creature Stephen Fry, actor and writer It's just beyond sad.

Matisse spoke with self-knowledge both sad and ruthless — on behalf of driven artists in general — when, in a 1941 letter to Pierre, he referred to a harrowing recent painting by his friend Georges Rouault: "A man who makes pictures like the one we were looking at is an unhappy creature, tormented day and night.

The author, although he largely has the measure of her – "Marilyn was a strange and unhappy creature, but at the same time she had more natural comedy to her than anybody I would ever know" – is plainly in thrall to his subject, and his narrative, so measured and sceptical elsewhere, rises to the level of rhapsody when he is writing about her.

In one striking portrait of von Essen, she does indeed appear to be communicating something, but it's probably not exactly what Strindberg had in mind: "I am a pale, boyish and unhappy creature who is getting less attention than that huge flowered wall hanging next to me".

How could I possibly partake of such an unhappy creature?

"Such unhappy creatures belonged outside the circle of honor.

The exotic, unhappy creatures he sells are carted off by out-of-town customers while locals keep their distance.

As he points out, the opera is essentially a story about two unhappy creatures who make parallel journeys in opposite directions and intersect briefly along the way, she en route to heaven, he to his piteous living hell.

I got out of the bath and caught sight of myself in the full-length mirror, and it was such a miserable sight, this unhappy cornered creature — it was like a thunderbolt: Right, today is the day everything changes.

"In a word, I feel myself the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world," the diseased composer writes.

In a letter from the time quoted in countless program notes, Schubert describes himself as "the most unhappy and wretched creature in the world," and yet these pieces are among his most gripping chamber music creations.