Word: saddeningly
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...love for his flighty wife never wavered. After she had left him for the last time he wrote her: "There is no end to my need of you. My thoughts are near you and with pain do I think of our everlasting separation; especially do your vacant, dismantled rooms sadden me. . . ." He was writing to her again ("Farewell with God, beloved angel, I embrace you with my whole heart. . . .") when she lay dying in Geneva, stabbed by a political assassin. The news, Franz Joseph thought, filled his cup. And he was right. In 1916, before he could see the ruin...
...invitation comes from my heart. . . . I want you to tell me about the particular problems which puzzle or sadden you. but I also want you to write me about what has brought joy into your life and how you are adjusting yourself to the new conditions in this amazingly changing world. . . . Your confidence will not be betrayed. Your name will not be printed unless you give permission...
...States. Destroy that, and you have, by violating the most cherished sentiment of millions, erected an enduring and inseparable barrier to the achievement of a free Indian nationhood! "I can feel no doubt that this demand for independence must do an irreparable injury to India's cause, and sadden the hearts of the wiser of India's sons and friends...
...Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark, N. J., the priests in the city parishes of that diocese gave up their automobiles. Parishioners gasped. Was it to humiliate the holy fathers that Bishop O'Connor had done this thing? Did he want to make fat priests lean, and sadden lean ones by . packing them into streetcars ? "Fishers of men" ... how could they be fishers if they were bundled, like sardines, in busses, elevated railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations...
...doubts that sadden and the hopes that cheer...