Word: forlorned
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...that is much of a painting. No one seemed to pay any attention to this neatly-framed bit of canvas, and after a while, it naturally became very jealous of the other paintings which were being exhibited in the same museum. Never, during its entire lifetime, had this forlorn little collection of palette-scrapings experienced the supreme thrill of receiving such adjectival orchids as "significant form," or "masterly brushwork." not once in its whole career had it been afforded the pleasure of being designated as "the work of that up-and-coming young artist from the west...
...distraction of human lives (in this filming of Zola's novel) with the mechanical majesty of locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In the morning the yards are seen bustling, in the rain forlorn, at night ominous. There is a gnawing dread that, like the human characters, the rushing trains will destroy each other, kill some one. But in the end it is the humans who kill and are killed...
...monocle. Once he emerged from conference with the air of a man whose adventurous patience is exhausted. Ostentatiously he tore up a typewritten sheet, announced for all to hear: "I'm all washed up." Back he went, however, to the conference room, like the leader of a forlorn hope. At last, after two days, peace seemed to be assured. Justice Dineen adjourned court and his decision until next...
...platform of the railroad station of Lublin, in German Poland, teemed. On it stood a forlorn, broken spirited crowd who moved only when shoved. The people were utterly destitute. All they had for baggage was here a knapsack, there a handbag, sometimes just a cloth bundle. A few carried scraps of food for which they had no stomach. The most any had in cash was 300 marks ($120). Train after train pulled in, and passengers poured out like ashes from dump-trucks. The heavy crowd became unmanageable. Finally the stationmaster blustered out, ordered that not one more passenger should alight...
...battered Arab who plays an ancient, mournful wail upon a harmonica. Some are as uproariously funny as his prodigious, W. C. Fieldsy liar (Len Doyle) who bursts on the stage with: "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds?" All are forlorn. But by means of a wealthy drunk (Eddie Dowling) with a generous purse Saroyan gives back to these people some of their hopes & dreams, something of their dignity...