Sentence examples for almost as sad from inspiring English sources

But almost as sad as seeing an opponent resort to violence to stop him was a second incident wretchedly misinterpreted by Webb.

While these were only oil on canvas, cast in bronze or forged in steel, not living people, the tragedy is minimized but their destruction is almost as sad, because it was equally needless and equally barbaric.

To Judge Chin, Mr. Madoff seemed sad, almost as if he were grieving.

One of Noble's most impressive visions tells him to "keep on," but as he does keep on (and on and on), until he winds up kneeling at the feet of his aged, now harmless mother, cutting her grisly toenails, we feel that we've been living his sad life almost as long as he has.

When contrasted with the brusque insistence of a rock-and-roll rhythm, the duo's sweet, sad sound was almost as perfect a blend of rhythm and country as Elvis Presley's and fueled a string of chart-topping hits, including "Wake Up Little Susie" (1957), "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (1958), and "Cathy's Clown" (1960).

Much sadder still, you are almost as likely to believe that this situation is getting worse and won't change.

But not as sad as it used to, and almost certainly not as sad as it makes him.

You know, that painting has a sad story, he added a moment later, almost as an afterthought.

These words were almost all dropped from the questionnaire and replaced by terms such as sad, anxious, worried, and stressed which have been shown in other studies to carry the same meaning in other languages [ 31].

It is almost as cliche-ridden as "same old Nets" -- as if sad-sack organizations somehow have a built-in excuse to lose.

No New Yorker has won the race since 1979, when Jim Rafferty prevailed, and this strikes me as sad, given that Esbru began as a stunt involving almost no one but New Yorkers.