Sentence examples for a sad exercise from inspiring English sources

Tuesday's press briefing was a sad exercise in the cognitive dissonance being pawned off as the new normal.

Canavan called the legal challenge a "sad and cynical exercise that comes straight out of the activists' now well-publicised strategy document called Stopping the Australian Coal Export Boom".

We elected to use a SAD.

Lowering the body count can -- perversely, irrationally -- feel like a sad thing, as if it were an exercise in diminishing the weight of Sept. 11.

So new badges for Morecambe, Chesterfield and Cheltenham – a sad trend that distances football from its historical roots, or a necessary exercise for all forward-thinking modern clubs?

What a sad, sad day.

"This is a sad, sad day.

It's just a sad, sad situation.

A sad old dog.

What a sad day.

A sad divorce ensued.