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“It's called Crawl, and it's a kind of sadsack 'I know I tried to choke you unconscious and bite one of your ears off, but I still love you baby' plea for forgiveness.”
“The distance between these characters 'self conceptions and the objectively pathetic situations in which they find themselves -- extending even to the middle-class characters, such as the protagonist of "The Small Things in Life," who obsesses over toast -- creates a kind of sadsack comedy that makes the almost exclusive focus on male characters and their problems much easier to take than a detached description of the stories' plots -- man gets in trouble with his drug dealer for nonpayment of debts; woman hires lowlife to kill her husband -- might suggest.”
“Thanks for not being a sadsack jerk like all the other ones.”
“When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated -- Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers.”
“Valerie says that her inspiration was Audrey Hepburn, which, looking at her sadsack models, is a pretty serious dis to Audrey.”
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“John C. Reilly stars as John, a downtrodden sadsack who finds hope in a blossoming relationship with Molly, played by Marisa Tomei.”
“Pekar's gift for turning his Jewish angst into sadsack comedy, based on the minute irritations of daily life, may even have inspired Larry David's contributions to "Seinfeld": George Costanza bears more than a passing resemblance to Harvey Pekar.”
“Today is the first day of season1,293 of The Bachelor, wherein sadsack Dallas pilot Jake looks for love in all the wrong places.”
“We're all going to chip in and send him a shih tzu. #sadsack”
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“Your sadistic sadsack greedy wack job insane asylum world just getting worse & worse.”
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bilby I've never heard the phrase sad sack of shit.
Not even on this page. Apr 18, 2011
duckbill Presumably from vulgar “sad sack of sh-t”; Cartoonist Sgt. George Baker said he took from a “longer phrase, of a derogatory nature”. The term originally referred to a well-meaning but inept soldier. Apr 18, 2011