And in Act III, when Siegfried goes hunting and encounters the Rhinemaidens, they have become a sorry lot, all grimy and dejected.
Jorge Camara, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said that his group was trying to salvage something, mostly its dignity, from what had become a sorry situation.
But the passion has suddenly become a sorry symbol, with the coach of the World Cup team accused of corruption and several star players under investigation for tax evasion.
Undershaw, in Hindhead, Surrey, has become a sorry sight, empty and vandalised, but this is where Conan Doyle wrote some of his most famous stories, including The Hound of the Baskervilles – though his story Silver Blaze, with the famous line about the incident of the dog in the night-time, was written earlier, in the 1890s.
So money becomes the sorry center of the whole restitution business.
Their plight became a sorry example of Uzbekistan's ability to alienate and traumatize its own people while trying to deal with the I.M.U.
If bassline became a (sorry) niche area of interest south of Watford, the north of England's appetite for the stuff is as strong as ever.
Genis became a "Sorry Bandit," as one of the city's tabloids memorably dubbed him, when he politely committed a series of robberies to pay off a crazed Ukrainian dealer in the Village.
If the canopy continues to waste away, Schneider said, Louisville could become "a very sorry community".
