Word: forlornly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SURPRISE FACTOR Even singing holiday songs, she sounds forlorn JINGLE BELL ROCK RATING (OUT OF 5) [2 1/2 ornaments...
...home that April Divilbiss has shared with the two men she calls her husbands, you drive south on Interstate 55 from Memphis, Tenn., and cross the border into Mississippi. Then you double back along a little road that winds into a forlorn section of Memphis again. It's not just two states but several states of mind you end up traversing. That's because the family album under the TV in April's apartment contains snapshots not of a happy couple but of a devoted threesome. And baby makes four...
Buffy drives home, forlorn, after a particularly wrenching scene with Angel; teardrop face framed in the windshield under a rain-dark sky. It's a lovely television moment, and the addition of Alison Krauss & Union Station's wistful, wispy "It Doesn't Matter" touches it with greatness...
There is a small, forlorn fraternity that thinks The Postman, Costner's widely reviled postapocalyptic romance, is a decent movie, acutely alert to the perils and pleasures of mythmaking. Maybe audiences will forgive Costner for making that noble flop and welcome him back to the baseball-weepie lode he mined in the sappy, canny Field of Dreams. (He even plays catch with his dead dad again.) Or perhaps, like this dogged Costner fan, you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning...
...lots of old men in worse condition, half crazy, living on the streets, abandoned by their families. I don't loathe my dad anymore. I cry a lot. Sitting down to a margarita and a beer (nonalcoholic these days) at El Torito with him again recently, I felt forlorn and, oddly enough, lucky too. Lucky to have discovered late in life how to love all over again. I only wish he could understand the wonderful gift he's given...