Word: forlorned
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...movie ends in the zoo. Elgin sits facing a rather forlorn-looking camel while snowflakes fall around them both. The old zookeeper walks by and Elgin asks him if it snows in the camel's natural habitat. "No," the zookeeper says, "But don't worry about it. He'll get used to it. He'll adapt...
Liza is a tornado of energy, and that has a hypnotic appeal. It sweeps up nearly everyone with its seductive force. When she plays her forte, the waif, her wide dark eyes brim with vulnerability. In moments of stillness, her forlorn, diminutive figure makes a plea for love and assurance that only shattering applause can provide and confirm. And she gets...
...life around her, came to life, only to realize sadly that everyone in the tableau had turned to stone. She then watched from her pedestal as a human being was rejected just as coldly by his re-animated fellows. The tragedy ended in an optimistic climax, when the forlorn man and the lonely statue turned to each other...
...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...