Word: forlornly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detail and fuse broad patches of light and shade. They don't intend to document, just coax an emotional response. She did a series on motherhood, in which titles were appended as interpretations. For example, "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," and "The War Widow." The latter depicts a lank, forlorn woman with a child raised against her shoulder, her flat white gown leaping from deep shadow...
...lifelong Chicagoan, Greeley, at 45, feels like an outcast from the city's academia and his diocese. Perhaps too melodramatically, given his loyal circle of friends, he sees himself as a "lonely" and "marginal" priest. But he hardly seems forlorn. In warm months, he shuttles in his Volkswagen between his gloomy Victorian room in the city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when...
After years of seeking German reunification, the U.S. has resigned itself to the permanent existence of East Germany. Its basic hope, in the words of one State Department official, is "to make it more human." That is probably a forlorn hope. Honecker's government will under no circumstance allow the people to be tempted by anything more dangerous than blue jeans or bluegrass. Peter Hacks, the most important East German playwright since Bertolt Brecht, sums up the plight of his countrymen in his drama The Troubles and the Power...
...loyalty which he considered a virtue, Mitchell unmistakably played the martyr at the hearings. He left his pipe behind--casting it aside like an enraged Ahab, ready to face the world without the aid of comfort. And he left Martha behind, so he could appear, alone and forlorn, as a man oppressed...
...Richard Nixon emerged from the South Front of the White House, he seemed forlorn, his shoulders sagging. None of his family were with him. He climbed into his long Lincoln limousine with his new chief of staff, General Alexander Haig. The eight-car motorcade, led by a car full of Secret Service agents, slid off into the cool, clear Washington night. Thirty-eight minutes later, again looking preoccupied and rather alone, Nixon checked into the third-floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The President, said his personal physician, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, had come down with viral pneumonia...