as sad as it is

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It is as funny and as sad as it is furious, and packs its punch in a rich score, incisively conducted at the Manhattan School by Kynan Johns, that transitions with devilish ease from chorale to fox trot.

It's a tale that's as sad as it is alarming; sending weird dirty videos to your friends over WhatsApp, or whatever, is-according to detailed scientific research-pretty fucking common.

This relationship is as sad as it is strange.

What happened this week, as sad as it is, is good".

"As sad as it is, there is no solution," he added.

Darnielle has crafted a book that is as sad as it is beguiling.

As traumatic as it was and as sad as it was, I am really glad it happened".

The growing estrangement between these two giants of American foreign policy was as sad as it was inevitable.

After 51 years and countless articles about Polish parades, banquets in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and, especially, polka, The Polish American World confronted readers with an editorial recently that was as sad as it was inevitable.

As sad as it was, it was perhaps only fitting that this abysmal Nets season of blown leads and last-minute losses concluded as it did tonight at Continental Arena.

And, inevitably, we get the former mayor, and frequent defendant, Kwame Kilpatrick: "It was as sad as it was appalling: a black city in which the most prominent leader plundered, pillaged and lied, all the while presenting himself as its guardian angel against the White Devil".