Sentence examples for merely sad from inspiring English sources

Increasingly, grownups appear not merely sad but pathetic.

When they are contrasted with these heroic infractions, the antics of Britain's bent politicians seem merely sad.

What I hadn't fully grasped is that over the past decade, Kilburn High Road has gone from being merely sad to becoming one giant perpetual All Nations market.

Readers also tended to share articles that were exciting or funny, or that inspired negative emotions like anger or anxiety, but not articles that left them merely sad.

Ordinary folk are held incapable of the profundity of true tragedy; their disasters lack importance and beauty and are merely sad.

A third group was apathetic and disengaged, while a fourth tended to be angry, hostile, and disappointed — their emotions were strongly negative, as opposed to merely sad.

And aren't the Raiders merely sad-sack losers, along for the ride out of desperation?

She is not merely crabby in the film, but sad.

In Memories of My Melancholy Whores, García Márquez allowed his old Charon to forget, and the resulting memories are not melancholy, not even sad, but merely pitiful and disappointing.

Others advocate lowering the minimum wage for unskilled workers.Mr Rajoy says he will not let up on reform until Spain's unemployment plague becomes merely a "sad" episode in history.

With Giroux, at Central City, I had seen that my being a published writer was going to be merely a sad affair — not that he intended to show me that.