"Families should be having these conversations, " regardless of how sad or painful they may be.
But, insofar as that was the truth, how sad that there was no way out from the truth.
How fitting, said a chef friend, but how sad, that he died just as he should have been enjoying a fine galette des rois.
Only those old enough to see how sad the story is may shed a tear, knowing, as we all do, that there is no going back to our own Neverlands.
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When I told him the bad news he dropped his eyes to the floor, shook his head and expressed quietly how sad he was about the problems that are affecting his country.
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The question is not how sad we feel.
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How sad if the investigation into the sadistic acts of a psychopath was to become a police circus in which the concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' was lost in the desperation to atone for past failures.
And I want to take this opportunity to say how sad I am for Eliot Spitzer's family, particularly his teenage daughters, his wife, of course, but his parents who are my generation and wonderful nice people, and I know this must be a terrible blow for them.
Some apps that Havens models his ideas on are Emotionsense, an app for Android that uses the microphone to sample the ambient sounds and conversations of the day and assembles a dossier on how happy or sad you are, and Moodscope, a website that lets users share and understand their moods and get support from friends.
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Opinions are contagious, which is sad considering how often they are wrong.
The popularity of pyramid scams in South Africa is a sad sign of how easy it is to con people, particularly the poor and ill-educated.
On its face the story is a sad one considering how this elderly man faces retirement uncertainty at an age when finding new work is unrealistic.
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How else to explain the sad-sack tone from the leaders of the four biggest U.S. banking companies after their respective earnings announcements in the last week?
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Every schoolchild in Silicon Valley knows the sad story of how nice Steve Jobs helped to found Apple Computer, only for the evil bean-counters to evict him nine years later (now, of course, he's back).
Basing layoffs on seniority "is a sad example of how policies aren't aligned for what's best for schoolkids, " said Tim Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit that helps school districts recruit and retain quality teachers.
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It is also a sad reminder of just how good and durable Nokia phones used to be - and probably still are.
One conversation that was sad to hear is how much time doctors spend talking to insurance company representatives who deny coverage for certain treatments and drugs for diabetic patients.
The really sad part of this story is how often this type of person is rewarded in a competency-based system.
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The lesson was about how we can tell when someone is happy or sad.
But the report on how Penn State handled the allegations is "a very sad reminder that we all have to have checks and balances in our lives and within our departments and within our universities, " said Greg Byrne, the athletic director at the University of Arizona.
In the sad, grimy little church, he had understood how her imagination had been excited and still was, but the poverty of the place had a finality about it, even as the attempts to disguise its neglect had.
Pablo and Anselmo knew how good they were and while Pablo stood now proud and less sad-looking, watching them lovingly, the old man acted as though they were some great surprise that he had produced, suddenly, himself.
So how exactly does a bank make a buck with such a host of sad sack offerings?
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In fact, I'd say it takes much more effort to consciously do than it does to just stay sad, but with all my heart, I cannot tell you how worth it it is.
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