Word: crestfallen
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Viktor and Rolf are crestfallen. The Dutch designers - fashion-set favorites who are now out to prove that they're not too quirky for mainstream success - are in London for their first-ever movie premiere, the opening of Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and their friend and muse Tilda Swinton. Part of Leicester Square is cordoned off and Swinton, whose short red hair and long black chiffon Viktor & Rolf dress make her look like a fiery upside-down exclamation point, is signing autographs and posing. Viktor and Rolf trail behind her. It's all so nearly perfect, and yet ? "There...
...Gailini was out. The vote was 38 to 2. U.S. officials had already dismissed four other Industry Ministry officials, either for Baath Party connections or for abrasive management style, but removing someone as powerful as Gailini was a delicate task. "This is the time of democracy," he said, clearly crestfallen. "Should I leave now?" Abdul Mujib, magnanimous in triumph, asked him to stay on as an adviser. --With reporting by Joshua Kucera, Terry McCarthy and Michael Weisskopf/Baghdad and Mark Thompson/Washington
...shocked,” she says. “She would just rip into me and I was trying so hard to make her feel comfortable with my friends and to think of her when there was a social opportunity, just to be sensitive. I was absolutely crestfallen...
...night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive and very crestfallen, who had shared the Gorbachev-vacation theory...
...Venus stands next to her sister, both of them with pins in their mouth, a tape measure around their neck and chalk in their hands as they drape muslin over their mannequins. Adrian stops by and rearranges the pins Venus has misattached to the bustline. Venus looks surprisingly crestfallen, given that she must have taken a lot of rejection going door to door with her four sisters as a Jehovah's Witness...