Rather, following the sad trend in publishing, he gives advice on moral questions, the kind that people could answer for themselves if they weren't so busy watching "Temptation Island".
That, he said, has been the sad trend of the analyst community during the years of the dot-com bubble, when companies with no profits and few prospects of earning them could get glowing reviews from analysts like Henry Blodgett of Merrill Lynch and Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley.
But I also blame the sad trend that "ethnic" in Hollywood is often a Caucasian version of ethnic.
"This is a sad trend for me," Ms. Baumgartner said.
There is an upside to this sad downward trend.
The Telegraph, which kicked off the debunking in January, calling mindfulness the "saddest trend" of 2015, noted its move into the workplace, where it is becoming ubiquitous: a technique that can make the employee happier and more productive.
Studies by groups like the American Institutes for Research's Delta Cost Project have been documenting a sad trend over several years — a persistent drift in spending on noninstructional and noneducational areas.
So new badges for Morecambe, Chesterfield and Cheltenham – a sad trend that distances football from its historical roots, or a necessary exercise for all forward-thinking modern clubs?
The 2010 census confirmed the same sad trend confirmed by many censuses before it: As Americans continue to migrate to cities and suburbs, rural places are steadily losing people and political power.
Re "To Reach Simple Life of Summer Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets" (front page, July 25): In addition to illustrating the growing disparity between the lives of a charmed few and the rest, flying children to summer camp in private planes reflects another sad trend in our society: choosing personal convenience over shared experience.
