Word: forlornness
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...deemed worthy of such a triumphal greeting to emerge. Imagine my surprise when suddenly at the door appeared a miserable and rather mousy-looking man, shackled at the wrists and ankles and with his head slung. I turned up the volume on the television set and learned that this forlorn figure was none other than Neil Entwistle, the British man charged in the murder of his wife and newly-born daughter. Entwistle was escorted out of the plane by a contingent of armed officials large enough to invade Canada and led into a marked police car that looked freshly washed...
...Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them...
...reversal of the accomplice role from “A Simple Plan”), who may be playing on Charlie’s insecurities for his own agenda.Arglist’s insecurities may remind viewers of the “Cusack Character,” the forlorn puppy dog lover boyfriend that has become inextricably tied with the actor since his Lloyd Dobler role in “Say Anything...” But Cusack rejects Charlie’s place in this long line of lovable losers: “He’s definitely a loser...
...Shenk’s personal experience with depression gives his version of Lincoln an underlying sympathy and sensitivity toward Lincoln’s forlorn thinking. But Shenk says that he has no personal agenda with this book other than to present a new view of Lincoln...
...often feel a sense of pity for these women, who look forlorn, highly stressed, and yet also obsessed with pamphlets...