"Aside from personal sadness, I'm also sad that this could stop progress in the cities".
For Sheila Nevins, the only stories worth telling are intensely personal, often sad and almost always disturbing.
Personal Shopper, sad to say, found itself roundly booed at its evening press show, although I rather liked its off-beam, skittish nature, its marriage of stock genre thrills with lugubrious human drama.
The small, sad, personal truths that the characters reveal seem inadequate to the emotion they provoke.
Then he discovered something: another way into his concerns that wasn't overblown and historical, but personal, intimate, and sad.
(Angelo) 'Grandma's Ashes' (Saturday) Some of the Upright Citizens Brigade's top performers help turn tragedy into comedy in this improvised show based on sad personal stories.
Most readers were sympathetic to baseball's Darryl Strawberry, in whose troubled history many saw less an American tragedy than a sad personal case.
And if the personal stuff is sad - genuinely affecting - then at least we can recover with his political anecdotes, which are often hilarious.
Rick's hit songs included "Travelin' Man," "Hello, Mary Lou," and the sad, personal "Garden Party," which he wrote after reluctantly making a 1971 appearance at a rock revival at Madison Square Garden and being booed because of his long hair and style, a far cry from little Ricky.
It felt so personal and really sad".
