Instead, if she looked at him, it was with a sort of vague sadness, as if he had monumentally disappointed her somehow.

It was a long time since they had met like this, and Fat Wong, looking about him, felt a vague sadness that this should pass.

Yet he felt himself swept up in some vague sadness, some grand melancholy.

I thought of him with a vague sadness and with a puckering bitterness too.

No fear, no discomfort, only a vague sadness at the thought of all that remained undone.

Saxon was silent, oppressed by a sadness, vague and remote, which the mention of Bert's widow had served to bring on.

A vague sadness, an unfamiliar pity, filled Martin's chest.

She was weeping, and a vague sadness had come over Genji too.

But what does Mr. Greenberg mean to communicate beside vague sadness?

Jake only looked at him, an expression of vague sadness in his gaze.