I didn't like to see him like a sad little boy.
I have to say that we found Nicholas a very sad little boy.
In the novel an analyst muses about his patient, a sad little boy.
Such a sad little boy, no parents, I kept hoping he'd work it through.
For the next few years, I stayed close to my family, a sad good boy in mourning.
He turned to the sad dark boy from Unit Two.
What a sad, lonely boy he must have been, Anya thought.
The psychologist reported, "He presents himself as a sad little boy who fights a lot."
Food missing from other students' lunches was traced to this thin, sad boy.
From the very first, he struck Brooks as a sad boy.