sorriness

Terry came out with tears of sorriness in her eyes.

But he gave up a home run on the first pitch of the third, and his night spiraled into sorriness thereafter.

I don't mean that kind of sorriness," said Old Grandmother. "

Maybe that was the answer, a sort of cycle of sinning and sorriness.

Much sorriness.

Soul is sorriness."

Some speak fondly about being knee-walking drunk, of regrettable trifles with mean women and general all-around sorriness.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that the business of the poet and novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Soon you will understand the sweetness of crying, of ears and sorriness and pastries and calves and diaphragms and tongues, each one as soothing as the last.”

It was a necessary, preliminary step on the road to redemption, the beginning of the dance of sin and sorriness that may, eventually, pave the way up from his current depths of shame to new heights of wiser, smarter, deeper, public service.