The phrase "a sad world" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a feeling of sorrow or disappointment about the state of the world or humanity.
Example: "After hearing the news about the natural disasters and conflicts, I couldn't help but think we live in a sad world."
Alternatives: "a sorrowful world" or "a bleak world".
It is a sad world that we live in.
It would be a sad world were the races homogenized into one amorphous mass.
And unlike the glitzy casinos, greyhound tracks offer a sad world of sticky escalators, grubby walls and horrible food.
It's a sad world where the wealthy go shopping for passports while refugees drown in the Mediterranean.
It is a sad world that forgets this shared humanity, in a sense denying life at its most basic and possibly most sacred.
Love 'em August 29 , 2012Ten minutes ago she added: "if I can't pay the Italians a compliment - all of them - it's a sad world".
But in their best moments together, Mr. Gere sheds his wariness to express a sad world-weary tenderness, while Ms. Ryder's slightly shrill, pouty bravado melts, and her frightened doe eyes appear caught in metaphysical headlights.
It's a sad reality of the world we live in that fear and the threat of violence still keeps so many girls from the classroom.
Oscar winner Mo'Nique is disappointed by a sad reality about the film world: There's not much room for black actors in the upper echelons of Hollywood.
She discussed the record in detail back then with Grant Alden, whose splendid article, "Loving, Leaving, Living: Allison Moorer lays it all on the line with a suite of songs about a sad, sad world," appeared in the September-October 2000 edition of No Depression magazine.
The album also included the closest thing Moorer has ever had to a hit single, "Send Down An Angel," along with "Cold, Cold Earth," the hidden track about the murder-suicide involving her parents that ends with "Now they are lying / In the cold, cold earth / Such a sad, sad story / Such a sad, sad world".
