"Many things like this happen to me," she reflected sadly.
Every episode began with the show's contemplative theme and a prerecorded prison-call greeting, and we reflected, sadly, about the fate of a thirty-two-year-old man serving a life sentence, who may have been wrongfully convicted.
When, several years ago, one of my oldest friends moved from London to Scotland, to take up a job at Glasgow University, I reflected sadly on how his two young sons would be lost to the game of cricket.
I passed the site the other day and saw a proud placard asking rhetorically: "What makes the British Airways London Eye so unique?" and I reflected sadly, "because it's the world's only horizontal ferris wheel".
After a lean period, which hit rock bottom when the club had to play fast and loose with the salary cap to avoid relegation in 2006, Wigan can now look forward with relish rather than reflecting sadly on where the good old days went.
"We're talking about a very positive response by the public in terms of determination to register and vote but, you know, this has been one of the most vicious, unprincipled, vulgar and violent election exercises I have ever witnessed," Soyinka reflected sadly.
They were reflecting (sadly) their constituency, the conservative voters of the South, not liberalism or the platform of the Democratic Party.
In other words, their popularity reflects (rather sadly, in my opinion) the culture and tastes of the nation.
That, sadly, reflects the reality of situation where families (including mine) were, and still are, split over the issue.
