He got sick of hanging around with such a sad-sack!.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much."] Reference

Get a taste of Walser's brand of sad-sack humor at N+1.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Different Stripe:] Reference

Does it feature a sad-sack main character, even Belacqua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flushing Out Shriek: An Afterword–Notes, Fragments, Research, Alternate Scenes] Reference

There are three types of funerals: celebratory, sad, and sad-sack.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 Hollywood Portfolio: Killers Kill, Dead Men Die] Reference

But it isn't the story of the sad-sack victims of evil capitalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wall Street of 100 Years Ago] Reference

Can I see a show of hands who might agree with this sad-sack contrarian?.    From Wordnik.com.  ["American Prayer" of the damned.] Reference

Tammy Pierce's sad-sack teen-age life continues to unspool, comics-style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin Wallets, Fat Bookshelves: A look at Fantagraphics’ fall/winter catalog | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

"If I got a sad-sack story, I would say I don't want this person on my team.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Job Losses Buffet U.S. Early, Compounding the Downturn] Reference

• Jared Allen, Kansas City — Rookie put up nine sacks for sad-sack defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - All-Joe members worth their weight in gold] Reference

Tony Randall is on hand again as Peter Ramsay, Jerry's sad-sack, ineffectual boss.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Farr: The Best Movies That Talk Business] Reference

Martin Freeman, sad-sack Tim from "The Office," is perfect as sad-sack Arthur Dent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't panic - BatesLine] Reference

This is the problem with these sad-sack sleuths: their own creators get bored of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Touch of Evil] Reference

This reprobate knew he couldn't repent -- and he felt no remorse for his sad-sack life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steven Denlinger: Death and the Evangelical Urban Myth] Reference

And clearly he hadn't the heart to use his magic to chase off the sad-sack lot of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortress Of Frost And Fire]

Hoffman plays Harvey Shine, a sad-sack 60-something composer of music for TV commercials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: ‘Last Chance Harvey’ | We Are Movie Geeks] Reference

Another actor could have played this wreck for easy pathos — a sad-sack giant in decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Perfect Casting Call] Reference

My heart weeps for the poor sad-sack public defender that drew this nutcase defendant. k.e.    From Wordnik.com.  [No travel for evangelist, judge says - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

No more references needed to those sad-sack Phillies teams of the past and their 10,000-plus losses.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

This week, the Bills host the sad-sack Dolphins, who may be forced to play third-string QB Sage Rosenfels.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - It's time to hit the trade market and buy low] Reference

And unlike sad-sack songsters like Smog and Will Oldham, nobody can say Neil Young sounds like anyone else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neil Young's Semi-Precious mettle] Reference

It makes the Metropolitan Opera's production from just a matter of a year or so later look like a sad-sack mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

By now you've realized that the New Jersey Nets aren't just a sad-sack basketball team, they're profoundly horrible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Teams That Make the Nets Look Good] Reference

But the timing couldn't be worse for a slip in Pittsburgh, coming two weeks after a loss to a sad-sack Cleveland team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giants-Steelers Could Provide Super Preview] Reference

Louis van Amstel, the Dutch sad-sack who was first out with The Bachelorette last season has a better partner with Lisa Rinna.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

The adversary here is one in a long line of sad-sack dogs, with droopy ears, a pointer's tale, and a malleable, expressive face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Warner Brothers cartoons] Reference

In the first season, he was a sad-sack cipher, a bizarre performance-artist who didn’t automatically inspire audience enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

He is humorous, in a way no other actor could have been in this big, sad-sack of a hack musician, while being absolutely heartbreaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Morgan: Happy Birthday To A Singing Warren Beatty] Reference

Most of the stories seemed to want to be the Marvel mold of heroes with problems, but always took things too far, into sad-sack territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Worst Spider-Marriage in Comics] Reference

All those seething beta males (as you so aptly describe them) are versions of her sad-sack brothers, who got the short end of the Rodham DNA stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama-Backing Unions Demand Hillary "Sever All Ties" With Penn] Reference

But I think sometimes the journalists - I read articles about myself where they kind of paint this sort of sad-sack picture, which isn't really the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Sexsmith: Notes on the Passage of Time] Reference

The San Francisco Chronicle found the film "scattered, over amplified and unsatisfying" and New York magazine called Jeff Bridges's character a "sad-sack hero.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Movies With Second Acts] Reference

Whiny as well as winey, Miles is a first-class party pooper, but Giamatti takes us so deep inside his sad-sack psyche you can't help but root for his redemption.    From Wordnik.com.  [LIFE IS A CABERNET] Reference

In reality, crossing a TV writer is "suicide" says actor Ed O'Neill, who played sad-sack dad Al Bundy on "Married with Children" and now plays the patriarch on "Modern Family.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Revenge of the TV Writers] Reference