The soldier stopped firing and patted him on the shoulder to reassure him - a brief gesture of kindness that seemed unbearably moving against the background of so much sadness.
More specifically, Reece blames the region's legacy of reckless mining and subsequent widespread poverty as the "systematic cause" of so much sadness.
Balance is provided in the form of my husband – who often worked on his laptop from an awkward, twisted horizontal position on the sofa, so Disco could sleep on his chest, but feels incapable of devoting much sadness to his demise.
A statement from the Rotary Club of Maidenhead, of which he was a member, reported the death "with much sadness" of a man they acknowleged as "probably the oldest active Rotarian in the world".
Neither of the Putins showed much sadness on Thursday night.
"They were just full of life, having seen so much sadness.
Though the five-year anniversary of the tsunami will bring much sadness to the Indian Ocean region, the massive recovery efforts in education, health and sanitation will ensure that those who were affected will also have a bright future to look forward to.
If desire is the cause of suffering, as Buddhism holds, how much sadness must there be in the smaller monasteries in Sikkim, which aspire to the opulence achieved by the larger ones?
And here I was, beaten down, despairing, drowning in the darkness of a room that held so much sadness.
There is so much sadness when thinking of the missing mom or dad, a brother or sister, husband, wife, classmate, cousin or old or new friend.
