And the movie never sits still, piling one bravura sequence upon another – family reunion, Indian murder raid, pitched battles, fraternal fist fights, heartbreaking sadness, all against the forbidding grandeur of Monument Valley and the south-western desert – and never once losing its vicelike grip on the audience.
His human sadness measures itself against nature, setting our mortality (in "The Trees") against the tireless green cycles ("Yet still the unresting castles thresh / In fullgrown thickness every May. / Last year is dead, they seem to say, / Begin afresh, afresh, afresh").
So she imagined they were putting into him a sort of liquid mortal sadness, a corrective against a dangerous abundance of faerie joy.
He was pleased about the SNP's 56 MPs but this had to be balanced against sadness over the Conservatives winning a majority.
They were against sadness, moonlight, sentimentalised love, syntax, monotony, the tango, Parsifal, Venice, marriage, the papacy, modesty, museums, English art, verisimilitude, the nude ("we demand, for 10 years, the total suppression of the nude in painting") and, perhaps most surprisingly, "that idiotic gastronomic fetish of the Italians", pasta.
Being able to make sense of the painful experience is key to healing and rebuilding trust; it's the best prevention against sadness, bitterness and sarcasm.
I don't think we can build a suit of armor against sadness and depression and genetics with beads of happiness strung on a string.
Mostly, though, Sean and Patricia's exchanges have a wryness that pushes back against that sadness.
But even as residents press forward, they have had to be vigilant against resurgent sadness.
In the sixties, a childhood friend of mine who was crazy about street food would sometimes smile with his mouth full and shout out this slogan: "It's the dirt in food that gives it flavor!" In this way, he offered a defense against the sadness and guilt that went with eating far from your mother's kitchen.
