Word: sad
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...caretakers at any given time for the 153 children who are Pax's age). Wandering around the orphanage dormitories, Ms. Tuyen points out the small now empty bed that Pax slept in in the corner of the room. "He was here, and now he's gone," she says sadly. "I'm very happy for him. I miss him and so I am sad - but we have other children to take care of." She adds, "Everyone is sad since he's left," Tuyen says. "We have mixed feelings - happy, proud of him, missing...
...ambitiously literary--though still bracingly, crudely hilarious--comics on the Web is called Achewood. It's about a loose community of creatures--cats, a bear, a squirrel, a baby otter, a few robots--who are variously wealthy, clinically depressed, psychotic and gay. It swings, sometimes disconcertingly, from funny to sad and back. In one story arc a wealthy pleasure-loving cat named Ray dies and goes to hell, where he's forced to drive a 1982 Subaru Brat and gets drunk with legendary bluesman Robert Johnson at a Best Western. This kind of thing never happens to Garfield. The characterization...
...Colorado kidnap-rape-murder case because jurors had inappropriately brought in extraneous material--Bibles--for an unsanctioned discussion of the Exodus verse "an eye for eye, tooth for tooth ... whoever ... kills a man shall be put to death." The Christian group Focus on the Family complained, "It is a sad day when the Bible is banned from the jury room." Who's most at fault here? The jurors, who perhaps hadn't noticed that in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus rejects the eye-for-an-eye rule, word for word, in favor of turning the other cheek? The Focus spokesman...
...someone who watches TV for a living yet gets most news online or off cable, I think he's right. (Not just about TV news but most of the mass media.) But it's still sad to see TV news giving up on that dream, and the ambitions that go with it. It may be easy to mock Couric's palsy-walsy tone and Anchorman references, but at least she's trying to get new viewers' attention. Is change good for its own sake? In one way, yes. There's an intangible complacency that comes when you decide your mission...
...hooked up with one of your future roommates. Whether this occurred across the sexes or between them, it made for a really gay (3) night, but now you have an excuse to never speak to them again. Bonus! In deference to our Bell Lap forebears, we admit to the sad truth that residential life at Harvard sucks. There are many ways to cope with this, but most people just overcompensate. The two most popular options are getting blackout and trying to hook up with busted girls and butter-bodies (see Bell Lap 1), or joining student groups that celebrate every...