Against that sad obscurity, against surrender, against darkness, A House for Mr Biswas is a book for knowledge, for determination, for ragged unyielding life, a book that, over its great and complex length, shelters the one who reads it.
Fake news media forced to correct SAD! lie against Trump team: Spicer was not "in" but "among" bushes.
The Jets now come up against the best coach in football, and also against, sad though it is to say for us Peytonophiles, probably the best quarterback, too, and on their field in their weather.
But even stories this loony eventually run up against sad reality.
By John Malcolm Brinnin The New Yorker, January 4 , 1964P. 30 Alfonso was his name; his sad cantina leaned against a View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By George Packer By Doreen St. Félix.
You had the drama of West Germany's late equaliser against Uruguay; Scotland's stereotypically brave but fruitless performances in the Denmark and West Germany matches; the brilliant Danes exposing 10-man Uruguay; 10-man Uruguay frustrating Scotland for 89 minutes; and Frank Arnesen's sad sending-off against the West Germans.
Let's say that this shed hand, ripped from the dizzy helix, is a Tyger, a thing-with-feathers, a single sad heart set against the polestar's magnet: spinning ladder-steps where each bright face repeats its self in double code.
For those of us not in a position to pay nearly $20,000 for a first edition of "The Big Sleep" or $12,500 for Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," perhaps this is the pleasure missed most, a sad trade-off against the benefits of progress, convenience and predictable pricing -- the social and literary ambience of the average workaday used-book stores.
On the occasion of International Women's Day, which was celebrated March 8th, it is sad that violence against women and children still lurks in the developed countries.
