• In the house, a sad-eyed little woman looked out, afraid it might be the law.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Prince of Frogtown'

  • The paintings themselves might be sad-eyed clowns on velvet purchased at a parking lot art fair.

    FORBES: The Frame Game

  • The sad-sack Harold becomes a bit of a lush, but he joins AA and gets a handle on it.

    FORBES: The Social Animal by David Brooks: A Scornful Review

  • "I am bereft - very sad - we don't have an allotment, " said Karen Ongley-Snook, founder of Bosham Allotment Group.

    BBC: Allotment wait for thousands across southern England

  • For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.

    FORBES: Unlikely Dynasty

  • The second-ranked organic food chain, sad-sack Wild Oats Markets, often loses money.

    FORBES: Not So Wholesome

  • When we stopped at Stevens Pass to stretch our legs, I tried to devilishly form a sad-looking snowball from the light snow that covered the ground.

    BBC: A route of life-changing moments

  • Bridges' guileless performance makes this piquant little indie tale of country music, redemption, and the love of a pretty younger woman such a sad-song charmer.

    CNN: Review: 'Crazy Heart' an indie charmer

  • "I'm not ... an unhappy, sad-sacky kind of person, " Richey says.

    NPR: At Home in Nashville with Kim Richey

  • 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?

    WSJ: Debbie Downers on Wall Street

  • The darling buds of April have shaken off their veils of snow, and you, dear reader, have done likewise with your veils of fleece and SAD-induced despair.

    CNN: Three niche dating sites for targeted romance

  • As Yelena, the seductive young wife of a pompous older professor, Ms Blanchett bewitches both the sad-sack Vanya (Richard Roxburgh) and the rakish doctor Astrov (Hugo Weaving).

    ECONOMIST: Two excellent productions of an enduring play

  • The Cardinals also let Whisenhunt go on Black Monday, Dec. 31, cutting ties with the winningest coach in franchise history and the one who helped resurrected a sad-sack franchise.

    NPR: AP Sources: Browns Meet 2nd Time With Whisenhunt

  • Things got worse by the Toys "R" Us store, where there was competition from a Mickey and Minnie, two Super Marios, a SpongeBob, another Elmo and a sad-looking Hello Kitty.

    WSJ: Getting Into a Character

  • There was the sad-faced man with the bluebird-wings mustache.

    NEWYORKER: Ziggurat

  • And, because of that, the END IT movement, which organized the recent online-plus-real-world campaign, has gotten some heat from some laptop cynics who say their efforts aren't making a real, tangible difference in the big-sad-real world.

    CNN: In praise of 'slacktivism'

  • 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.

    NPR: Robert Jordan, Hemingway's Bipartisan Hero

  • People are very sad - those people.

    BBC: Vanessa Whitburn

  • It is truly sad -- especially when she thumps her chest saying "I am a feminist" without relating or qualifying the relevance of feminism to Islam -- because she has opened herself to the pitfalls of elitism and Westernization in the jingoistic sense.

    CNN: LETTERS AND COMMENT

  • In Jackson's simplified, sweetened, and CGI-besotted telling, "The Lovely Bones" is a sad-but-hopeful, dramatic-but-gentle fairy tale intentionally made less upsetting for teens. (There's no indication that Susie gets raped, as she does in the novel, and her murder occurs off screen.) "Atonement's" terrific Ronan, with her astonishing glacier-blue eyes, watches from a scenic afterlife as her father (Mark Wahlberg), mother (Rachel Weisz), younger siblings, and selected friends simultaneously heal from their loss and search for her killer.

    CNN: Review: 'The Lovely Bones'

  • "Films are a good form of entertainment during a recession because you can sit back and -- sad or happy -- you lose where you are and you go into the movie, " she said.

    CNN: Will the recession change movies?

  • "It is very, very sad news - I just can't believe it, " he said.

    BBC: Tributes paid after boxer's death

  • She held my hand as she told me, her eyes sad half-moons, her lips still full and provocative.

    NEWYORKER: The Other Place

  • It must teach you a sad self-sufficiency, being fathered like that, and a brutal reticence of the heart.

    NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior

  • That is very sad indeed - how could it be otherwise?

    BBC: Cullen parts company with Wolves

  • And it may be mean--sort of sad to say this--but you may need to miss a few payments before you get any attention.

    FORBES: How have your funds been doing lately?

  • The final act of the match was a brawl which centred around Haven prop Taani Lavulavu, who was dismissed as tempers boiled - a sad end to a fabulous cup-tie.

    BBC: Gateshead 42-38 Whitehaven

  • His poems - described by Publishers Weekly as "mystical, versatile and sad" - have been translated into more than 50 languages.

    BBC: Swedish poet Transtroemer wins Nobel Literature Prize

  • This conservative, hagiographic documentary is both a wistful, deferential tribute to the forever-young Dylan and a sad admission that Scor-sese, in effect, has always been old.

    NEWYORKER: No Direction Home

  • You considered when the verdict came in - the sad verdict from your point of view came in - that you might go for a judicial review or something like that.

    BBC: News Online

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