You may have an image of the classic Amnesty International supporter: a veteran protester, who cut their teeth opposing Vietnam, reached political maturity challenging apartheid and will continue to protest, even though over the course of those decades, they've ended up with quite a sad view of the way the world is.
Some people told me they thought Boy was a sad view of the Maori community.
It was a sad sight to see/view.
The third volume of the autobiography of the former president of Russia presents a somewhat flat and ultimately sad view of his final years in office.
"The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood" (Ezra Goodman): For the indelible, terribly sad view of a fallen yet still imposing giant, D. W. Griffith, near the end of his life.
Amongst the amazing beauty of nature, the life behind nature and the culture of the tribes, the A-ha moment was when I experienced the sad view of smoke instead of landscapes from the plane, due to fires from deforestation, when we were flying above the Amazon.
It is hard to avoid the sad view that her relatives, aided by lawyers and driven, no doubt, by love, are simply extending their own torment and adding to the already vast expense of her tragic situation.
"Vertigo" provides an even sadder view of the same idea, in Scottie's thwarted connection to Midge, a smart and capable woman who has everything Scotty needs but doesn't turn him on.
Speaking of tiny, sad views of what it means to be human.
It's a sad, cramped, meager view of human nature that wants to found a society based on the worst possible view of what it means to be human.
This is, in my view, a sad state of affairs.
