(1) The sight of a child's toy bike on a shelf in the kitchen made me sadder than the rocket damage.
(2) It sometimes evoked sadder emotions but it was always visually pleasing.
(3) No political career could be sadder than that of a man who, having leap-frogged into the cabinet over the ministers of state above him, is, 20 years later, voted, "12th most effective backbencher".
(4) What makes their plight even sadder is that most have no idea what sort of country they’re entering.
(5) It's an unrequited love story between the chimp and the star, but there's something about the abasement in that relationship (like, it's not just unrequited … one of them is a chimp) that purifies the tragedy, makes everything less mediated and much sadder.
(6) It's hard to think of a sadder and more brutal undoing of such a high-profile image than what has happened to Lawson.
(7) "No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favour with some Americans by castigating others," Daniels said.
(8) There are few kitchen sights sadder than a deep-tin drizzle cake which is sodden on top with a bone dry bottom.
(9) However, volunteers were sadder, more discouraged, and less interested in others than clinic patients.
(10) His own life would have been sadder if the wellspring of laughter inside him had not run so deep.
(11) As it happens, another half-century anniversary will take place next month, one also involving an American woman, but of a much sadder shade: on 11 February it will be 50 years since Sylvia Plath took her life and gained immortality.
(12) And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires.
(13) One final idea, if you'll bear with me, is that perhaps Jimmy Carr exists to remind us of the jokes that have been crushed for years under the feminine jackboot of political correctness: witness, in the same show, his triumphant resurrection of, "There's nothing sadder than a woman with two black eyes.
(14) Older, sadder and wiser, they were there to demonstrate that they get voter concerns about petrol prices and school standards (Basildon's troubled academies are front page news in the Echo), manufacturing and help for remote regions (Essex?).
(15) He described himself as sad after his dire local elections, but Nick Clegg looks considerably sadder today.
(16) The depressed patients were sadder and complained of more loss of libido than did the anxious patients.
(17) What made it all the sadder was the fact he was nice, decent and humane.
(18) "Splosh" fetishists are typically somewhat sadder creatures than these – the whole thing smacks abjectly of the nursery – but Linder and friend looked like glamorous aliens or a kind of deconstructed Leigh Bowery .
(19) You certainly come back out on to the street sadder and wiser than when you entered.
(20) There have been fewer sadder spectacles than the calm, academic Bernanke explaining to a room of incredulous reporters why the Fed did not take more extreme action to "save" the economy and goose the markets.