sadness
the quality or state of being sad; sorrow: It’s frustrating to know the sadness you’re feeling and not be able to help you.
an instance of sorrow: How can you be so unaware of the sadnesses these children have experienced?
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How to use sadness in a sentence
When incidents occur in Washington that people make parallels to Miriam, it just creates a great sense of anxiety and hurt and sadness, knowing that she wasn’t given consideration.
After that first short burst, other feelings can flow, starting with sadness to grieve the loss of safety, then fear and regret, or what we would do differently next time.
Boost your mood with emotional brain training | By Laurel Mellin/The Conversation | January 4, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI hope that in 2021, we’ll have less sadness and anxiety in common.
So, some would argue that emotions like fear, and also emotions like sadness, get us to withdraw a little bit to that which we know is going to work.
Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar? (Ep. 445) | Stephen J. Dubner | December 24, 2020 | FreakonomicsThe Kealohas’ unraveling has been met with sadness and anger.
A prosecutor and police chief were adored in their community. Then their scheme unraveled. | Kim Bellware | December 3, 2020 | Washington Post
Lady Edith is so sad that her sadness nearly set the whole damned house on fire.
‘Downton Abbey’ Review: A Fire, Some Sex, and Sad, Sad Edith | Kevin Fallon | January 5, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTMary Elizabeth Williams of Salon labels the show a “crass stunt” on a “bottom-feeding vortex of sadness network.”
Your Husband Is Definitely Gay: TLC’s Painful Portrait of Mormonism | Samantha Allen | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTBut for some of us, while its closing was sad, it was a tempered sadness.
The Bookstore That Bewitched Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Greta Garbo | Felice Picano | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhenever I look for a vein of sadness in Oliona it melts away.
His sadness over her descent into shooting up after managing to stay clean for a period is palpable.
And for fear of being ill spoken of weep bitterly for a day, and then comfort thyself in thy sadness.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousFor of sadness cometh death, and it overwhelmeth the strength, and the sorrow of the heart boweth down the neck.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousGive not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousBeauty was there; but it was the beauty of sadness; it was the crushed ruin of what might once have been bright and aspiring.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterWith deep personal sadness I learn that your country has urgent need of your great experience elsewhere.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
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