forlornness

She tried to keep a certain forlornness out other voice.

Can't you feel the forlornness of this world you've made?

It is from this foundation that one can begin to understand abandonment and forlornness.

Nor was there so much as a trace of the forlornness in his eyes that Earl had seen earlier.

There was a hint of forlornness in her voice.

This appearance of forlornness, they thought, only made him hand- somer.

Some staffers, he said, feel "a little forlornness" as they work on projects that they can never complete.

To escape the forlornness and the squalor I sought Michael's company.

Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.

The girl felt inexpressibly alone, weighted with that sense of forlornness from which only the young are wont to suffer.

There was a forlornness aboutthe drummer that made Kenton want to cry out to him.

Indeed, she was starting to wonder - in a moment of forlornness that was unlike her - if anyone needed her at all.

The basket, woven by the artist, had a characteristic awkwardness and a forlornness that intensified when you looked closer.

There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness.

I ached with forlornness.

Mr. Rooks delivers it with effective forlornness and a disgust with subservience.

On the contrary, who her mother was, and how she came to die in that forlornness, were questions that often pressed on Eppie's mind.

Then Mr. Edson, who had good abilities, in his forlornness and despair, threw them all to the winds.

The general forlornness supports the mood of Hamdan's prison letters to his family, which sound anguished, pious, and unthreatening.

Instead of the overfullness of squalor, we have the disconsolateness or forlornness of underfurnishing.

While the voices, harmonies and playing express a passionate forlornness, the music's relentless propulsion makes much of it almost irresistibly danceable.

Now, as they sat on the office's tattered puce couch and peeled campaign stickers off sweaters, their high was tinged with forlornness.

Therefore, the characteristic anguish and forlornness of existentialism are temporary: only a prerequisite to recognizing individual responsibility and freedom.

She was a "plain, frail child with a forlornness of spirit", which affected her grandparents who pampered her with food and clothes.

They went on round the house, peeping into window after window, peering into dim, dusty rooms that bad a look of utter forlornness.