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

NEWYORKER: The Other Place

But listen to the story of Vung Boih, a 17-year-old girl with sad, faraway eyes, and you realise that fate can be infinitely more cruel.

BBC: The Burmese teenagers who fled to India

Consider, for example, Greta Garbo's lovely, sad, saucer eyes, or a puzzling, dazzling photo of three women wearing stark white, flanking a white horse and standing in what looks like a white-tiled communal shower (actually Steichen's studio).

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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.

BBC: Now, as I sit on a plane back to Australia, reality has set in

Watching Corin Redgrave embody the one-time wordsmith, wit and apparent sexual fetishist Kenneth Tynan is to open one's eyes to a kind of genius that is both scintillating and not a little sad.

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