A bright and inquisitive 11-year-old can grasp much about his sad circumstances.

I'm sorry to meet you under such sad circumstances.

It seems to me that the only truly moral thing a person could do in these sad circumstances is kill himself.

"I am sorry we must meet for the first time in such sad circumstances."

The last time I saw him it was under sad and strange circumstances.

And then there were the sad circumstances of his personal life.

Many of us here wrote that we were so moved that you'd found her again and how wonderful it was, despite the sad circumstances.

It was far more probably some sad but ordinary domestic circumstance or a financial disaster.

No other action is possible in these sad circumstances.

But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week.