It was political". He reached for sadness but felt only surprise that the old man had run out of tricks; he wondered if his father's demise would turn out to be staged, if, like Sherlock Holmes, he was not dead but just in hiding, waiting for the right moment to dramatically reappear.
He reached for sadness but felt only surprise that the old man had run out of tricks; he wondered if his father's demise would turn out to be staged, if, like Sherlock Holmes, he was not dead but just in hiding, waiting for the right moment to dramatically reappear.
It took another roamer to fix the abiding strengths of Frank's achievement: its mystery, its sheer fatigue (notice how many pictures tilt and lurch, as if in the beery wake of a hard day's drive), and, above all, the ineffable reach of its sadness.
In their bewilderment and sadness they reach out to him, hoping he can shed some light on why their son had become so remote and unhappy.
"I have reached a level of sadness that I cannot digest anymore," she said.
Perhaps sensing my sadness, she reached over to me, and I embraced her, my baby between us.
But when I did feel that swell of sadness I reached immediately for one of the handkerchiefs, dabbed my eyes, and added my own tears to the box.
"With the end of the Tour de France," the novelist Paul Fournel wrote, "the summer reaches its moment of sadness: long, hot afternoons and no longer anything to get your teeth into".
I can remember the sadness of reaching the final page, and the happiness of knowing there was a sequel and that I had all the time in the world in which to read it.
"My decision to resign from the committee of the world's pre-eminent cricket club has been reached with very great sadness," he said.
The biblical tradition offers an invitation to sit with sadness before reaching for hope and healing.
