Then there are the sad lies we don't want to hear.
7. McGwire insisted no family member had ever DIRECTLY asked if he had used steroids -- This is the saddest lie of all.
Face smeared white, almost naked, Richard, the mad, sad king, lies in his bed, a lit microphone swaying like a noose above him, while the ghosts of those he has murdered hover around him.
For in the grave is no help, no prayer thither may go, no forgiveness thence come; so that the penitent whose sad victim lies in the ground, for that useless penitent his doom is eternal, and though it be Christmas-day with all Christendom, with him it is Hell-day and an eaten liver forever.
It's an album where Chilton, the record's creator, might one minute be singing about a "wasted face … a sad-eyed lie … a holocaust" and the next be thanking his friends – "wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you".
In this collection of short comics there exists an alternate understanding of the traditional comic character, with superheroes ignored by "cooler" superheroes, sad voyeurism, lying villains, and existential loneliness.
I am objective-correlative-ing that movie scene to the max, but basically whenever I feel like I am supposed to have a specific, moral, prescriptive opinion on something like this I say that line to myself, and probably have a sad little lie-down or similar.
It's sad that what lies behind these videos are the sale of sanitary pads or shampoo, they say, while there is still a woeful lack of strong female characters and female directors in feature films.
In mainstream politics, however, advertised passion becomes something sadder than a lie; it's a plea that the speaker be taken seriously, or at least seen as a sincere fellow doing his best, to an electorate that increasingly understands how little power a modern government has to improve its lot and how, in the end, so many political promises are bound to be empty.
Artur Zmijewski's riveting film of two naked men — one has had his leg amputated — walking in tandem up and down stairs and in the woods, ends on a funny-sad note: they lie on a bare wooden floor and perform a silly dance routine to the accompaniment of their own whistling.
