Sentence examples for perfectly sad from inspiring English sources

Instead we are presented with a little child's response to the suffering – perfectly innocent, perfectly sad.

Rangy but not showy, pained but not exaggerated, she moved from falsetto peaks to plainspoken mumbles and perfectly sad turns of melody.

By that I mean I've definitely been at least twice and have walked down the semi-charming promenade on both occasions, soaking up the perfectly sad atmosphere that clings like a blanket made of candyfloss, cheap lager and congealed fat to any British seaside town worth its salt and vinegar.

There's tons more artists out there who have made and are making perfectly sad-ass bummer music that could still annihiliate speakers, minds, and souls alike at any of your recent get-togethers... Silver Jews, Built To Spill, Ariel Pink, The Smiths, Burial, Bodycount, etc etc etc..

But it doesn't always work: sometimes it's too overwrought and wanders into cliched territory – You've Haunted Me All My Life (did someone say this was a breakup album?) sounds as if it could slot perfectly into the sad, but ultimately ephemeral bit of an Adam Sandler movie, while El Dorado and Little Wanderer both lay it on painfully thick.

Because truth be told, so many of the bios I read from my clients sound like they would go perfectly with a sad, weepy violin.

Sad, and perfectly, Britishly, naff.

David has engineered a consolation prize for him, a gift that is both perfectly right and ineffably sad.

Devastatingly sad and perfectly executed, it would become a signpost for where alternative rock would head in the new millennium.

But while Leonard recalls Sammy's sad tale perfectly, he seems unable to grasp its moral or its relevance to his own case.

By the time the manuscript went to the printer, it had been altered again, to the sharp and sad and perfectly balanced "Isn't it pretty to think so?" Early drafts of the book are well known to scholars, and are available at the Hemingway Collection, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston.