sad
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Brookner, alas, did nothing to dispel these assumptions, and waspish critics felt she lacked pizazz: “a sad little handbag-carrying lady,” the novelist Frederic Raphael cruelly proposed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Peter does tell Arlo that “it’s OK to be sad in my house,” confiding that he suffers from low self-esteem.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Anne Soffin, a Jewish woman from Grosse Pointe who had known Stevens since she was a child, said she opposed El-Sayed and hadn’t been moved to vote for him—but she found the whole situation sad.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
The siblings said they were not sad that the condition could end in the family in their children's generation.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Because when I looked at Ms. W. full on, she was staring at the blue house, but her face was tired and sad and she looked about ten years older in ten seconds’ time.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
"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
And even sadder to see globalization tossed aside like last year’s toy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 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
"Nothing can make me sadder, or diminish my value more than losing my dad, one of my best mates and the rock of our family."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
My new teacher tilts her head back, fakes an even sadder laugh.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
In a speech to those in the community centre, King Charles said the disaster "was and always will be, the saddest and most tragic of days imaginable".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Rather, he sounded like what he was—a damaged, thwarted middle-aged boy soprano, one of the saddest things in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The best documented and maybe saddest story is that of a bear named “Monarch.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Read: Opinion: Running out of money is not the saddest retirement mistake you can make.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 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
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