Word: forlorn
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...empty of glass, their doors agape. A few peasants dressed in blue jackets and trousers can be seen laboring in the fields in front of the town, but otherwise an eerie stillness pervades. As evening advances, only a few feeble lights come on in Sinuiju, and the town's forlorn structures are soon swallowed up by the darkness. Only the incongruous shape of a long-unused Ferris wheel is visible in the dying light...
...forlorn and frightened, but reports of my demise were greatly exaggerated. The Godfather was equally tough because I had little kids and I was always on the verge of being fired. Is art worth it? Probably...
...come to claim "The Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), who is present to administer the coup de grace to the program. There are a number of subplots in the film, in the best of which Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin play singing sisters, once promising, now more than a little forlorn...
...economic rise of China and compares it to the past examples of Germany and Japan, which, of course, ended badly. He concludes that this time things could be different because of the lessons of history and a price of miscalculation, which is now obviously very high. What a forlorn hope! As recent events have again demonstrated, the arrogance of power obscures all reference to the past. How else can one explain the naive belief of Rumsfeld & Co. that they could march into Iraq and, in a few months, pacify a region with a centuries-old tradition of turmoil? Harold Jones...
...goats were happy, but the people feeding them were forlorn as they dumped loads of unsellable cherry tomatoes in the scrub of central Gaza. Hundreds of tons of the vegetable used to be exported from the area, but last week the Palestinian Economic and Development Authority, which operates greenhouses abandoned by Israeli settlers, could only trash much of the crop. Since Hamas' electoral victory in the Palestinian territories, Israel has, in effect, blocked commerce by virtually sealing the borders, citing continued attacks by Palestinian militants. The closings also prevent almost all imports. Now anxious U.N. workers in Gaza City fret...