Sentence examples for sad play from inspiring English sources

"That was a sad play for the Redskins," Spurrier said.

In a similarly upbeat vein was Dag Gabrielsen's sweetly surreal "All Three Acts of a Sad Play Performed Entirely in Bed," with a libretto by Julie Larios.

During this scene, the audience finds itself watching a sad play about two women reading a sad book about a character making a sad movie.

Just a personal reaction: I've known Larry for all our adult lives, and looking at this sad play I realize how lucky I am to have reached a place where I'm no longer in the rat race.

One can't help wondering if Lee isn't being disingenuous, given that his overdependence on the tropes of American blackness is, in the end, what undermines this too long, predictable, and sad play.

Saturn Returns is a sensitive but sad play.

Why do we like sad plays?

Of course it's simplistic to say that good sad plays are moral or emotional tonics, like fiber cereal for the soul.

Daniel Zimmerman's set for "Be a Good Little Widow" is the perfect reflection of the lead character in Bekah Brunstetter's funny-sad play about loss at Ars Nova.

O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night," he says flatly, is "the saddest play ever written," which takes in an awful lot of plays.

Simon Stephens's Song From Far Away is one of the saddest plays I have ever seen: a short chamber piece for one.