Word: forlornly
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...fewer poinsettia will grace the winged feet of a forlorn Hermes in Gordon Hall this year, as the Medical School’s staffers look to ring in the holidays with some year-end cheer. Stripped of its usual floral retinue, the messenger of the Greek gods seems to bear some sobering news: pressed by an unprecedented financial crisis, formerly lavish traditions will be giving way to a frugal conservatism as Harvard’s party planners across face tighter budget constraints this year.While administrators look to cope with an endowment savaged by losses, schools across the University are doing...
...that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long close-up as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor - who says he reworked it to reflect his own life - elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. (The speech is up there with the one Jean-Claude Van Damme, another comeback kid of 2008, gives in his quasi-autobiographical JCVD.) If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part of a battered fighter so he could slip inside Randy's wounded innocence, then...
...priest believes that open burials are a fulfillment of the central tenet of his religion, which is to practice good deeds. With a forlorn expression, he notes that, 3,000 years after the tradition of open burials began, there are not enough Zoroastrians left alive to keep the tower in Yazd open. Instead, today's Zoroastrians who want to observe traditional burial practices must request in their will that their body is sent to a forested suburb in Mumbai, India, where the last Tower of Silence still operates...
...Times that seemed to sum up his current circumstance: Bush in Peru, dressed in an alpaca poncho, standing alone just after the photo op at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, with various Asian leaders departing the stage, none of them making eye contact with him. Bush has that forlorn what-the-hell-happened? expression on his face, the one that has marked his presidency at difficult times. You never want to see the President of the United States looking like that...
...briefly, is Rourke's fallen-angel smile. In the scene that could cinch his Oscar nomination, he gets a long closeup as Randy pours out his clumsy love for his daughter. The speech is boilerplate sentiment, which the actor elevates to a passion as sweet as it is forlorn. If Rourke had to punish himself to look the part of a battered fighter so he could slip inside Randy's wounded innocence, then, man, it was worth...