Word: forlorned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the millennium is an entirely artificial mark on the calendar. But beneath our preoccupation with it is a deep psychological meaning: the need to believe that we are not lost in time, that we are going somewhere and that we can glimpse where. We will feel a little forlorn having to look back to the year 2000. But soon enough, the predictions will start reaching toward...
...people I have spoken to have justified the status quo by arguing that Christmas trees have little to do with Christmas or Christians, which, given the linguistic parallels, seems a logically indefensible claim Christmas trees are tied directly to Christmas--Christmas tree lots on the day after Christmas are forlorn places, and I've never seen Christmas trees pop up in living rooms in the middle of April, both of which indicate the obvious: that Christmas trees are symbols for Christmas, a Christian holiday...
...artist formerly known as Marky Mark is sitting on a couch in a room on the top floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, posing for a photographer. He is fully dressed, and he's giving the camera a forlorn look. The rapper turned film actor and star of the controversial new porn-world comedy-drama Boogie Nights now prefers to be called Mark Wahlberg, the name his mother and father gave him when he was born, 26 years ago, in Boston, Mass. But the photographer wants a bit more attitude, a bit more of the old Calvin Klein...
...same police force. If you're a steady watcher of NYPD Blue, you get the impression that concern about a backed-up criminal-justice system in New York City must be a thing of the past. Watching perpetrators spill their guts to Detective Sipowicz, you can envision a forlorn-looking New York trial judge sitting on his bench in an empty courtroom, hoping that this will be the day when a defendant comes...
...stormy. Her first husband, Harold Nicholas of the dance team, was absent and faithless; their daughter Lynn was brain damaged and had to be institutionalized. Her second marriage, to Las Vegas sharpie Jack Denison, yanked her into bankruptcy. Her trysts with Preminger, Jurgens, Peter Lawford and others left her forlorn. Her nightclub career dipped; after Porgy and Bess (1959), good film offers dried up. Dorothy was yesterday's darling...