Sentence examples for sad standard from inspiring English sources

Debate has raged recently about whether junk food, the hyper-processed, hyper-palatable food that has become our SAD (standard American diet) is addictive in the same way that heroin or cocaine is addictive.

Even by Paraguay's sad standards, corruption has been particularly brazen and the economy especially sickly on his watch.

My apologies to the judges, Rodriguez and, possibly, Ossian, if I am treating the incident without sufficient seriousness, but it's one of the few less desperate and depressing news items around at a time desperate and depressing even by January's usual sad standards.

As the biological clock is known to be highly sensitive to blue light, the phase-shift hypothesis suggests that blue-enriched light is a more powerful treatment for SAD than standard light.

And while this may be crass, by sad old standards, this is good.

Conversely, the importance we place on thigh gaps, and bathing suit bodies, and under-eye circles, and other sad societal standards set through living in a patriarchal culture, and through magazines -- they all drop away, at least a little, at least little by little as we go through life.

They even managed to get the tone right for once, instead of just plugging in the standard "sad story" strings and soft fades.

The design, sample size, and statistical approach is intended to result in similar power to exclude clinically relevant QTc effects as a standard SAD FIM study (41).

According to the method proposed by Schröger and Wolff [ 24] in the auditory modality, which has been used in the visual modality [ 12, 13, 18], there were two blocked conditions in the current experiment: (a) deviant sad face with standard neutral face (oddball block); (b) control comprised of all five faces with equal probability as deviant faces in the oddball block (control block).

Henry Kissinger rang Downing Street "in a very emotional state" saying her decision to resign was "worse than a death in the family", while Thatcher's closest adviser, Charles Powell, told the US national security adviser, General Brent Scowcroft, that her departure was "a sad commentary on standards of loyalty in politics".

It's sad to see a standard die but don't become trapped in the past, friends.