With air pollution an increasing concern in Britain's big cities, it is a sad possibility that urbanites will one day don protective masks as readily as a hat or scarf.
"Bobby said, 'Yeah, whenever some old trainer retires, they're always passing the hat.' " To avoid that sad possibility, Bob Baffert ostentatiously went to Dubai and admitted it was "for the money".
Another, particularly sad, possibility is that accidental exposure to a new pesticide may cause non-lethal behavioral changes that interfere with the ability of honeybees to orient and navigate; brain-damaged foraging bees may simply get lost on their way home and starve to death away from the hive.
Nothing makes sense, other than the truly sad possibility that Te'o was involved in creating the girlfriend to enhance his story and help his Heisman chances.
"It was sad, but the possibility to be friends again with a man I liked and admired so very much was one of the best things that has ever happened to me," Mr. Paz said.
It's sad that the possibility of losing the perfect living quarters is more important than losing out on the perfect partner.
If not for what happened, it would have been me and Joe fighting for No. 1 for years after the war.' It made me very proud, but also sad; all the possibility that went down with that plane in the ocean".
It's the one in the shiny cheap suit hustling you to believe in its sad portrayal of your possibilities.
The first possibility is sad, the second condescending to the audience.
As the canny veteran responsible for Sister James's sad awakening to the possibility of evil in her world, Glynis Bell's Sister Aloysius is a tower of fervor, unshakable in her belief in the moral superiority of fountain pens, trimmed fingernails and her own, well-honed instincts about her school, its students and her colleagues.
