But he was a sad figure at the same time.

Basically, what we've found is probably a more ordinary and sad figure.

Neither saw the man who stood there, a sad bulky figure in the doorway.

He was a very sad figure in the end.

They left him by his weak little fountain, a sad but hopeful figure.

She slid the glass door shut again and looked at the sad figure of the engineer.

But in the end, Highsmith seems a sad figure, a disappointment to herself.

She was a sad little figure, lost in the turmoil of her thoughts.

In later life he was a "sad figure", having spent all the money he made.

He is a sad figure who tries to have complete control over the law.