Word: forlornness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact is, performance is nothing but personal. You get on Idol by singing; you win Idol by telling a story. Some do it through the songs: last year's winner, Taylor Hicks, was a master of that forlorn genre, the cornball story-song (In the Ghetto, Levon). Some make a story arc of their performances, like Clarkson, who grew over Season 1 from wallflower to leather-lunged sensation. Others make themselves the narrative. Season 3 winner Fantasia Barrino, for instance, had the story of teen baby-mamma who made good and subtly underscored it with performances like the soulful lullaby...
...single mangosteen. Yoga mats and aromatherapy oils proliferate in drawers like the Gideon Bibles of yore. And there are miserly arrangements of foliage. Fine hotels used to put out great urns of lilies; boutique hotels adorn your room with a single test tube, out of which springs a forlorn cutting of bamboo...
...patriot" who "cares only about what is best for the United States." The site includes news articles and documents pertaining to Feith's Pentagon tenure. And there's a tempting link entitled "Media Myths vs. Facts." Unfortunately, clicking that link brings you to a bare page with a forlorn message: "More information coming soon...
...musical weak link. Aside from some fairly distracting microphone problems, the harmonies and diction were delivered clearly. Thomas R. Compton ’09 easily has the best voice in the cast as the romantically frustrated, three-breasted “Lotta Boobies” (get it?!). His forlorn lament “A Lotta Love” ranges from passages of delicate melodicism to “Stand and Deliver”-level force...
...staff in Rhythmics, a DVD shop in an incense-filled underground market below Delhi's Connaught Place, were puzzled by my questions. The salesman scanned the walls of DVDs and then turned to me with a forlorn look on his face. "Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan fighting? No, we don't have that movie available. What's it called?" Next door, in a shop stacked high with the very latest movies, manager Kuldeep Singh dismissed the feud as "just newspaper attitude." "They make it up to sell more," he said with smile. "How can there be a fight when...