In "Whales" Mr. Eckert gives sweet, silly and sad form to the hope that our memories survive intact in what we create.
Rather than dismissing the trend as a side effect of digital culture or a sad form of exhibitionism, maybe we're better off seeing selfies for what they are at their best — a kind of visual diary, a way to mark our short existence and hold it up to others as proof that we were here.
Such sporadic AD (sAD) forms do not exhibit familial aggregation and are characterized by complex genetic inheritance.
It's telling that Trump referred to Senator Ted Cruz and Governor John Kasich, who had made him sad by forming a tactical stop-Trump pact, as "grown politicians," rather than "grownups"—no one is pretending that there are any of those left on the Republican side of the race and to himself as a political toddler.
One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
"Attacking teen girls on the Internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent," he added.
Attacking teen girls on the Internet is the saddest form of masturbation that exists and requires no discernible skill or talent.
I cannot think of a more blatant form of regressive taxation and sad promotion of easily formed and difficult-to-get-rid-of addictions for young and old alike.
While the non-Afro kids who nobody can remember the names of formed a sad, but commercially viable Fugazi-tribute band called Sparta, Omar and Cedric decided to abandon their vegan, no-booze lifestyles in favor of the dark and exciting worlds of heroin and homosexuality (at least, that was the rumor at the time).
For the late adolescent girls, only the mean scores of SAD symptoms increased form the first to the third wave and decreased from the third to the fifth wave.
