sad
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As Ms. Perry writes, “what was funny existed alongside what was intolerably sad, and the process of dying struck us as both quite ordinary, really almost a household task, but also incomprehensibly strange.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"It's really sad looking at where James used to stand in goal and saying 'where is he?'"
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The funny thing is, it doesn’t just make you depressed about plastic surgery and sad women and sleazy TV executives.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
“So my face, what you’re seeing, is genuinely sad for the people going home and then excitement.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was angry with herself for making her mother sad.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
It took until Game 162, but they clinched a spot in the postseason on Sunday, outlasting the even sadder Texas Rangers in baseball’s sorriest war of attrition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"We were able to find the body; some people couldn't. And that seems even sadder to me," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
But it became a much stranger, sadder story which almost a decade later is told onscreen in The Artist Who Disappeared.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
They’re meant to be heartwarming, I know — “Look at these two, who met in the nursing home when their wheelchairs collided coming out of the bingo game!” — but they just make me sadder.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
Hazel saw herself growing up—her hair became longer, her eyes sadder.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
Chopin’s Prelude in B Minor, which she played at her brother’s funeral, is “the saddest song in the world,” a piece whose lack of resolution is a “testament to the never-ending ways of grief.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Opinion: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Anton Du Beke, who was her partner on Strictly Come Dancing in 2010, said he was devastated by her death, which he called the "saddest of news".
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“Today was the saddest day since I’ve been here because, as a foreigner in this land, I expected what I knew about the U.S.,” he said during a virtual press conference that morning.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
“Because Billy never . . Albert sighed. “It’s that blank piece of paper that makes me the saddest of all.”
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
