And "Concert for George, David Lelandd's moving documentary of that event, mirrors the elegiac happy-sad quality of music that distilled the more spiritually heady aspirations of a segment of old-time hippie culture.
Only it had that sad leaf quality of a salad forgotten in the hot sun.
In the film, Daniel Clowes — an author of alternative comics and graphic novels like "Ghost World," which was made into a movie in 2001 — expresses admiration for the "sad American quality" of Mr. Avati's covers, comparing them to the works of Edward Hopper.
The profane, leathery, sad-sack qualities of the character — his unorthodox teaching methods, his fondness for whiskey, his gruff manner — amount to a nearly transparent veneer smeared over his essential saintliness.
Eli's older brother is the dominant member of the killing team; while Eli is reflecting upon the death of his previous horse and the sad-sack qualities of his new horse, "Tub", Charlie is taking orders from the Commodore – they are to head down to San Francisco and put to death a mysterious stranger named Herman Kermit Warm for some undefined reason.
"Central SoHo is sad now, but the quality of the stores on the outskirts of SoHo is very exciting," she said.
Incredibly, there had not been a three-set women's final at Roland Garros for 13 years, a sad indictment of the quality of the competition.
When St. Aubyn had come in — a long cashmere coat over a gray jacket, and his right hand braced and bandaged after a skiing accident — they had asked him to join them for a glass of wine, and for fifteen minutes there had been good-natured talk about the Tony prospects of the recent Broadway production of Pinter's "Betrayal," and about a sad decline in the quality of literary feuds.
CNBC sports reporter Darren Rovell is not exactly beloved by the Internet, maybe for his comments about the sad decline in the quality of Playboy Playmates or his super-awkward "proposal" to a teenaged Kate Upton while his pregnant wife hopefully was not watching at home.
The family members' horror — at the impropriety more than anything else — is at once mordantly funny and desperately sad, and it captures the quality of tragic limitation that defines all the major characters in "Cost".
