Word: sad
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...control of his own image. "I'm a sympathetic subject," he tells her. "Brilliant. Good-looking. So you let me tell you how it's going down." The tabloid reporter ends the show with a monologue about writing a bestseller entitled Most Wanted which she describes as "Sordid, juicy, sad and oh so entertaining...
...Stiller's Eddie is a sad-sack bachelor who's bullied by just about everyone - his unrelentingly randy dad (Jerry Stiller), his henpecked best friend (Rob Corddry), a couple of obnoxious 10-year-olds at the wedding of his former girlfriend - into finding a suitable mate. Lila (Akerman), whom he meets at a mugging, seems the perfect solution to what other people think is his problem. She's friendly, pretty and has a job in environmental research. All right, she won't have sex with him until after they're married, but surely that'll be a consummation worth waiting...
...book by looking at the words on the page, how they fit together, and what they mean,” she says. “It is shocking to me that it is controversial. My intention was to write about my own experience, that being both comical and sad.” Particularly sad—and particularly difficult for Pollitt to write—was an essay on her mother and her father. For Pollitt, forcing people to realize that she has a sometimes-difficult inner life has proved to be the most interesting aspect of this book?...
...tale. Behind a setting of fluffy blue waves and birds carrying intertwining blue branches, this Majnun is too decadent to be pious. Instead, the painting emphasizes the story’s literary elements, underscoring the meeting’s fantastical nature and foreshadowing the couple’s sad fate.In the center of the six paintings on display are three tea-colored, yet brightly illustrated “Layla and Majnun” books, two of which are Persian. The most compelling part of the collection, the books attest to the value of the exhibit as living history...
...questions poured in from reporters during the press conference following Saturday’s game, the faces of Harvard players and Crimson coach Tim Murphy looked more and more somber. I knew, because I was sitting right in front of them, literally feet away. They had reason to be sad, too—it was the second final-minute loss suffered in three weeks this season...