Search Details

Word: forlorned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Bankers Association conference, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler will conspicuously fly a U.S. air line (TWA), will probably stay only one day and, he says, "I may carry my lunch." Reason for this frugality: once again the U.S.'s hopes for ending its gold outflow have proved to be forlorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Forlorn Hopes | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...escape is initially from invading Nazis. A diffident, dutiful French shopkeeper hustles his pregnant wife and daughter into the first-class carriage of a refugee train, himself crawls into an overcrowded freight car, and settles down contentedly to escape his dull, daily round. Contentment is compounded when a forlorn Jewish girl beds down with him. When his family gets lost in the wartime shuffle, the lovers happily play house in a refugee reception center until the missing wife and child are found. Then the lovers part. Many months later, fleeing the Gestapo, the girl timidly hunts up the shopkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sample Simenon | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Playwright Thomas Babe, who fills most of thirteen pages in this Advocate, is said to be interested in form. Both he confines his interest to scene-sized packages, and one's final impression of his "Resistance" is one of forlorn people talking about themselves. This seems more like a prologue than a play...

Author: By William H. Smock, | Title: The Advocate | 4/20/1966 | See Source »

That very reputation has made him a poet's poet, "that forlorn phrase," in William Meredith's words. And his role as an innovator relates directly to his role as a teacher and scholar. For better or for worse, Berryman is an academic--that once-unpleasant label that generated such a fuss in the late fifties. Most of his life has been spent in colleges and universities. Born in Oklahoma, in 1914 he was educated at Columbia, Clare College and Cambridge; since then he has taught "just about everywhere but the South," including Grinnell, Wayne (Detroit), Princeton, Minnesota--where...

Author: By Stuart A. Davis, | Title: John Berryman - 1 | 4/12/1966 | See Source »

There is nothing more depressing or more charming (depending on your point of view) than a summer resort boarded up for the winter. Even Hyannis, with its fashionable shops and acres of motels, looks forlorn...

Author: By Joseph A. Kanon, | Title: 'The Cape of Winter | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

Previous | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | Next