Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...states," says Frost with emphasis, "that when intent and foreseeable consequences are sufficient, motive is completely irrelevant." Nixon says nothing. He is now subdued, a somewhat forlorn figure who contrasts sharply with the forceful debater whom television viewers see in later programs in the series (which were actually taped earlier...
Although Amy is a bright and happy child, to outsiders she sometimes seems, as a Washington Post editorial put it rather heavily, "forlorn-a baffled and beleaguered public figure." No more Amy press conferences, Jimmy ruled. Says Mary Hoyt: "For a while, she needs to get her feet on the ground and be treated like any other nine-year-old." As long as she does not follow Quentin Roosevelt's example, her privacy should be relatively safe. Arriving late one day for class, the story goes, Quentin disrupted his fellow students' work by singing and wildly waving...
Compatriot--it sounded so musical yet so forlorn. I shrink from recalling that greeting because it hangs in my memory like a portent of betrayal. I hope it really meant that hope is possible. Already the man had culled suspicion in a stolidly bourgeois farming couple as he pressed for workers' movements, and in a spurt of desperation and elation, invoked Che Guevara's name. I guess he'll learn...
...with his shock of white hair and Irish brogue, is a familiar figure. Nevertheless, he is trying to change his image. Identified as far back as anyone can remember with every possible liberal-left cause, he is casting himself as a "middle-of-the-road ethnic" in the probably forlorn hope of cutting into the Moynihan constituency. For all his radical past, he is also supported by the regular Democratic organization-showing that any renegade who stays around long enough eventually acquires respectability. The question is how much good this backing will...
Parker, a scrambler with strong currents of cockney in his speech, started out in the mail room of a London ad agency and within seven years was the head of his own flourishing production company. His specialty was commercials that recalled old movies. One showed a freshly forlorn figure at a railway station, trudging through clouds of locomotive steam, accompanied by the Rachmaninoff theme from Brief Encounter and making his melancholy way home to break open a Birds Eye Frozen Dinner for One. Parker made over 600 commercials in less than six years, hankering all the while to do something...