Sadness is typically characterized by a facial expression that causes someone to lower their head, or gaze, or the corners of their mouth. I have given examples below, which describe sadness, but it's in your capabilities to decide to use the example that best fits your scene.
- Speak bitterly
- Becoming quiet
- Smiling through discomfort or pain (hiding the negative emotion)
- Shake the head
- Pucker the lips
- The inner portion of her brows raised
- Cheeks swelling from crying/soaked wet with tears
- His tone was undercut with pain or heaviness that chokes
- Voice turning brittle as if they’re about to cry
- Voice cracking in the throat
- Voice is heavy with negative emotions (guilt, shame, etc)
- Voice starts of sharp but then breaks down (becomes dull)
- Voice sounds like it’s made of gravel
- Pause several times mid-speech
- The light in their eyes faded away
- Lose focus in the eyes
- Closing your eyes, not wanting to show tears
- Down in the mouth/corners of the mouth
- Face losing all the glow
- Feeling weak and tired
- Felt wretched with grief
- Felt gloomy/dull
- Feeling abandoned/hurt/ugly/useless/invisible/unappreciated
- Filled with misery
- Feeling empty (in the heart) [Know that at this point, you don’t even cry. You are long past crying.]
- Feeling dead in most moments
- Movements become slow or dull
- Feel like you lack more than what you have
- Breaks down into tears/ teardrops rolled down her cheeks
- It was heart-rending to see her
This is just a preview of 30 examples.
The main document expounds the emotion extensively.
The full list of over 200 examples is available on Patreon.
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