This doesn't prevent Ms. Williams from conveying, in startling glimpses, the very real sadness, regret, contempt and even compassion behind the mask.
In the end, death is just very sad, and sadness is, I find, the toughest emotion.
"Everyone's very sad - a lot of crying, a lot of sadness".
Consider whether the sadness permeates the story at all turns or whether you'll just have a very sad ending.
Very little sadness attaches to my job.
Never, says J., did he expect to be laid off by Merrill: "There was a very profound sadness.
"It is therefore with very great sadness that I have decided it is simply not possible to contest the next election and still promise the kind of service that my constituents have rightly grown to expect.
There is very little sadness visible between them as they interact, but the songs from "Strict Joy" seem to have been formed in the crucible of some fairly dramatic moments.
John Lofthouse, the chief executive of the King Edward VII hospital — where Ms. Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, was treated this week for hyperemesis gravidarum, acute morning sickness related to her pregnancy — told reporters: It is with very deep sadness that we confirm the tragic death of a member of our nursing staff, Jacintha Saldanha.
The hospital, which is rated as one of London's best private medical establishments and has a reputation for closely guarding the privacy of its patients, spoke of its shock and "very deep sadness" at the death of Ms Saldanha, whose partner and two sons live in Bristol.
