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Sadness

Low, quiet hurt or depletion—not always tied to a single identifiable loss.

11 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus · 6 published pairings shown below.

Study and magazine

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Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.

Passage and image

Curator-published pairings — the human claim between text and artwork.

  • SSJ-RC-182

    “Yes. But I did not love only him; and while the comfort of others was dear to me, I was glad to spare them from knowing how much I felt. Now, I can think and speak of it with little emotion. I would not have you suffer on my account; for I assure you I no longer suffer materially myself. I have many things to support me. I am not conscious of having provoked the disappointment by any imprudence of my own, I have borne it as much as possible without spreading it farther. I acquit Edward of essential misconduct. I …
    Winter Morning, Unguarded

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  • HCCP-RC-3734

    The price of labor went up, and the cost of the necessaries of life became "very high."222 The effect upon the Church was such as to interrupt its ministries and perhaps check its growth. The English bishops provided for the exigencies of the moment by issuing letters giving to all clerics the right of absolution. The priest could now make his price, and instead of 4 or 5 marks, as Knighton reports, he could get 10 or 20 after the pestilence had spent its course. To make up for the scarcity of ministers, ordinatio…
    Curtain of Gold

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  • JDCE-RC-262

    “No, I’m not.” “So you don’t read the newspapers?” “No.” “Bravo! I’m here all the way from Lau [image "image" file=Image00011.jpg] , and here’s the songbook with this song in it. The way I read it, you haven’t made a single mistake.” There the stage is fully set for the eventual triumph of literacy over orality. At a first stage, with Homer, for example, there was only the tradition of rhythmic epic narrative, and while it was, of course, traditional in story, theme, and formula, it was pluriform in composition,…
    One Small Clasp

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  • MMFR-RC-257

    In order to please his lonely wife, Cupid instructed Zephyrus (ZEFF a russ), the god of the west wind, to blow the sisters up to the palace. Alas, when they saw Psyche’s mansion and her gleaming wardrobe, they were filled with envy and plotted how they could destroy her happiness. “Your husband,” they whispered, “is not a god but a serpent. Tomorrow night, bring with you a lamp and a razor. When your husband is asleep, use the lamp to reveal his true serpentine form and then cut off his head with the razor.” Poor,…
    Elsewhere

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  • DCA-RC-125

    1. In 1288 the Guelfs were paramount in Pisa, but they were divided into two parties, led by Ugolino della Gherardesca and by his grandson, Nino de’ Visconti (for whom see Purg. viii), respectively. The head of the Ghibellines was the Archbishop of the city, Ruggieri degli Ubaldini. In order to obtain supreme authority, Ugolino intrigued with Ruggieri, and succeeded in expelling Nino. He was, however, in his turn betrayed by the Archbishop who, seeing that the Guelfs were weakened, had Ugolino and four of his sons…
    Elsewhere

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  • IHE-RC-036

    Scope: This lecture focuses on the meeting of Achilles and Priam, and the final resolution of the Iliad. Even after he kills Hektor, Achilles still is unreconciled to Patroklos’ death; at the request of Patroklos’ ghost, Achilles gives him a funeral, but remains unconsoled and isolated from humanity. Only the visit of Priam to ransom Hektor’s body can reintegrate Achilles into the human community. We look closely at the meeting between these two enemies, Achilles and Priam, and discuss the impact of their …
    Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000), Gustav Klimt | The Met

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Crowd-tagged images

Images attested as carrying this emotion — through curator pairings, the illustration corpus, or the cumulative picks of readers using Connect. Not a verdict on the image; a record of what others have said it holds.

Part of a cluster

Sadness sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Sadnessfrom its siblings here.

Often arrives with

Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).

Articles

Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).

Research

How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.

  • Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
  • Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
  • Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
  • External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
  • Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).

Passages

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11 tagged passages