It had at its centre a terrible sadness, one we all know too well.

Yet there is also a terrible sadness in the testimony.

She looked at him with terrible sadness in her eyes.

There was a terrible sadness in the dark face.

A terrible sadness ripped through her, and she was afraid.

He could not fathom the terrible sadness that his friend felt in being left behind forever.

The empty space there seemed to hold a terrible sadness within it.

"It's a great tragedy and a matter of terrible sadness."

Harry Penn felt a terrible sadness, and was sorry that he had taken it upon himself to rise.

How deeply your father must have felt its terrible sadness!