Somewhere in the confused narrative is the sad story of bright people doomed to failure.
It also caused her continuing distress – and when that distress, with its mixture of guilt and longing, disappeared, it seemed to me that she was free to inhabit a magnified present, whose possibilities were bright, sad and joyful.
Sometimes, I am really sad that a bright light has gone out too soon.
I mean there are lots of pictures about Sydney Harbour that are grey and soft and rather not sad, but not bright and colourful.
The props for this production of "The Tempest" are simple: a rope tied with plastic bottles and trash, like a line barnacled with flotsam, bright with sad gaiety, a utilitarian table, and a few chairs.
Figures drift in and out – a boss, frowning into his briefcase; the person who delivers the mail; a terminally unhappy female co-worker – and gradually assume key roles (narrator Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, whose face is "sad and lovely with bright things in it", the fantastically boring, tennis-obsessed love interest Jordan, Gatsby himself).
At my appointment several weeks later, I waited until we were done with the exam and told Dr. Bright how sad I was about Hadley's MSA diagnosis.
It was really sad that all the bright, funny, creative people I'd known in school were shoveling themselves into careers they hated.
Arson Is No Way To Make A Love Burn Brighter: How sad that a rumination on The Feminist Mystique could lead one to engage in an indulgent and vapid display of slut-shaming!
