Holger Falk, the baritone, produced a solid, appealingly rounded sound that captured Ottone's shift from sad sack to violent avenger to reformed lover.
Contrast this sad cultural shift with a wonderful Pathé newsreel from the 1930s, showing a 13-year-old girl diving off the 69ft high Saddle Rock in Torquay – a feat which would never be allowed in today's risk-averse climate.
Her face was sad, and the shift of emotion was profound for a moment, I thought something terrible had happened.
He's seldom still, his expressive features shifting from sad to sexy to sharply observant, and his loose-limbed body moving for the sheer pleasure of it.
These kinds of dichotomies and issues appear time and time again, either in the plaintive vocal to "No Bed For Beatle John", or the dehumanised, auto-tuned voice intoning, "I have a woman inside my soul, her eyes sombre and sad", over John Palumbo's shifting soundscape pulse.
His message was clear: America is foolishly betraying its would-be friends.In truth, his speech, though grave and stern in its delivery, was pretty short on policies that differ greatly from Mr Obama's.And in the areas where it did propose substantial policy shifts, the sad truth is that they would probably clash with his plans for magical transformation.
The fact that candidates' acknowledgment of something indisputable is taken as a sign of "just how far the discussion has shifted" is sad, though not surprising given the amount of money and skill major corporations have devoted to planting doubt about climate change.
The moment would mark such a profound shift in the sad continuum of ground zero, from recovery to rebuilding, that formal commemoration was required.
Note the shift from Greg Louganis' sad, shameful, "My Private Hell" cover in 1995 to the celebratory Aiken cover (and the others) years later.
That said, my baby is gorgeous and smells delicious and laughs at me and is basically a unicorn, so there's nothing sad about this huge emotional shift, even if it's weird.
