Last year, in a poignant essay in Haaretz, he wrote that as he edged toward death, he could no longer even conjure up sadness since the country he knew so well, and which was so dear to him, had disappeared before his eyes.
To most, blue conjures up sadness and jazzy riffs on a far-off saxophone.
It's beautiful, soothing harmonies conjure a great sadness.
Just the mention of the numerals that make up this infamous day will forever conjure deep pain, sadness and anger in Americans.
An image of a 30-something year old woman sitting in a wheelchair, just at a glance, conjures thoughts of sadness and weakness.
The delicate piano and spiralling violin conjure a sense of yearning sadness and soothing warmth, like a brother's hand on one's shoulder in a time of need.
But to me, that's what the theatrical event is all about, and if I can conjure the feelings of joy and sadness, and the emotions to want to create a better world and better bonds with everyone and everything in an audience, what's unmanly or uncool about that?
I'm sorry … WHAT?" Nick Hornby's 2005 novel A Long Way Down is a difficult, interesting book; a tragicomedy about depression saturated in that distinctive super-sadness that only Hornby can conjure.
Owen tells a really good story and one involving cliffhangers which are brilliantly handled in Rachel O'Riordan's tightly controlled production played out on Hayley Grindle's design which conjures a world illuminated by bare strip lighting and sadness.
"Muses," painted in oil, reflects Richardson's view of music as a storyteller conjured up by the violin's ability to invoke sadness or joy.
A soldier's grave, and the sadness it brought, is lightly and deftly but irrevocably conjured.
