Word: forlorn
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...agenda, the new ruling party has been scrambling to respond to the consequences of victory, particularly a freeze in funding to the Palestinian government by the U.S., the E.U. and some of its members. Throughout Gaza last week, the difficulties of actually governing Palestinians could be seen everywhere. Forlorn workers from the Palestinian Economic and Development Authority, which operates greenhouses abandoned by Israeli settlers in central Gaza, had to dump hundreds of tons of cherry tomatoes in nearby scrub bush. The crops were meant to go to Europe. But since Israel has virtually sealed the borders, citing security concerns, goats...
They play in a lonely driveway under a forlorn trumpet and two drums, this silent band. At a yellowed keyboard markered with “Katrina Band of New Orleans,” a gorilla plays forever, an empty bottle of Bacardi in his lap. Next to the pianist, a monster hunches over a guitar, ignoring the empty wine bottle nearby.The lead singer, a mannequin with a gray wig, sings at a rusty microphone. David L. Fountain, 54, calls this wooden statue his wife. Without her, Fountain would have been a bachelor all his life, he says...
...unfortunate, but it’s not depression. This does not mean he shouldn’t talk to a friend, someone at Room 13, or a therapist at UHS; if he thinks it will be helpful, he should. But no one is going to declare that this forlorn lover is depressed and put him on Prozac. On the other hand, people who have been very sad for a prolonged period of time must seek help for their depression...
...recently had the opportunity to travel with a delegation of Harvard students to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. My trip confirmed that only first-hand experience can portray the inherent injustice of military occupation. It is nearly impossible to imagine a human being more desolate and forlorn than one who waits hours in the sweltering sun and stench of garbage in order to be allowed by an 18-year old foreign soldier to reach his home, school or family. The Israeli government has justified its 40-year brutal occupation of Palestinians in the name of security and national preservation. Nevertheless...
...deemed worthy of such a triumphal greeting to emerge. Imagine my surprise when suddenly at the door appeared a miserable and rather mousy-looking man, shackled at the wrists and ankles and with his head slung. I turned up the volume on the television set and learned that this forlorn figure was none other than Neil Entwistle, the British man charged in the murder of his wife and newly-born daughter. Entwistle was escorted out of the plane by a contingent of armed officials large enough to invade Canada and led into a marked police car that looked freshly washed...