Word: forlornness
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Late last night, all that was left at Row and Mt. Auburn sts. were plies of sawdust all over the pavement and a few forlorn "State of Lampoon" parking signs
...Manhattan last week, three forlorn people mingled with the crowds and peered wistfully into the shop windows of the promised land. The young couple was Rumanian, the slim youth Polish. To get there, they had endured years of homelessness, hunger, danger and bitter waiting-and now that they had arrived, they could not expect to stay. They were illegal immigrants, caught on a last desperate attempt to smuggle themselves into the U.S. Temporarily, they were at liberty on bond...
Carmona's opponent is an 81-year-old democratic liberal, Norton de Mattos, a retired general and diplomat who reads treatises on topography and mathematics for relaxation. He heads a forlorn rabble of socialists, democrats, Communists, and some monarchists...
...Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern of the pre-World War I days, which a mournful St. Louis sportwriter once characterized by saying solemnly that "the fans were staying away in large numbers...
...hall the women are lined up, coquettish in spite of their drabness; on the other side are the slicked-down men with little bouquets and candy boxes in their hands. To the stringy tune of a bored band, the partners hop and skip through their dance, distorting it like forlorn children at dancing school. The scene is only slightly harmed by an overlong, over-sentimental group singing of Going Home, timed with the heroine's own realization that she is indeed going home...