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The phrase "a sad image of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a visual representation that evokes feelings of sadness or melancholy.
Example: "The painting presented a sad image of a lonely figure standing in the rain, capturing the essence of despair."
Alternatives: "a sorrowful depiction of" or "a poignant representation of".
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Deborah Harry has a cameo as a former professional mermaid living a solitary existence in an Airstream trailer and is a sad image of what Alby might become if he doesn't snap out of his fantasy.
An editorial by essayist Pascal Bruckner in the newspaper, headlined "The DSK affair reveals a sad image of America", highlighted the cultural chasm between French views of sex and relationships and those of "Les AngLesSaxons".
It's a sad image of what two relatively simple things, Communism and an embargo, can do to a great city in only 50 years.
Few were on the wasteland of the beach but us, a group of seven environmentalists and then a sad image of a mom and two young daughters playing in the sand.
In contrast, the originally-planned season finale, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", which Homicide producers felt had a sense of resolving season storylines, was a somber episode which ended with a sad image of Bolander quietly singing to himself at a bar over a beer.
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In my mind, it somehow altered from this symbol of evil to a very sad image of death".
A man of his accomplishment and intellect sitting alone and losing millions at a slot machine is a sad image.
It has given the place a sad image.
I always thought that was such a sad image.
"It was this very sad image – of a weeping, sleeping, ageing woman, eaten up by the anger, fear and guilt she must have felt in expunging me from the family memory – that made me decide to write the book," King says.
It was a new interpretation of the role — "the romantic and sad image of Giselle took on a more down-to-earth quality, an acquired will and determination," according to The International Encyclopedia of Dance — that press accounts of the time describe as, at one point, eliciting such applause that Ms. Semyonova had to repeat a solo.
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