How To Use Forlornness In A Sentence
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{226} (1) While making all allowance for the feeling of insignificance and forlornness which is apt to overwhelm us when we begin to realise the immensity of the material universe, a little closer thought should make it obvious that nothing in the nature of mere bulk or bigness furnishes even a reasonable presumption, let alone a convincing argument, against the survival of the soul; it is indeed difficult to perceive what legitimate bearing these physical phenomena are supposed to have upon a purely spiritual question.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
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Then Mr. Edson, who had good abilities, in his forlornness and despair, threw them all to the winds.
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy
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The repetition in lines two and four underscores the severity of the situation and the depth of the speaker's forlornness: She cannot simply relieve the pain that she feels through a pleasurable activity.
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They would have shuddered at the dust-windrowed street, the litter of refuse, the dismal lonesomeness, the forlornness, the utter isolation, the desolation.
'Firebrand' Trevison
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Klinghoffer is less inventive than Frusciante, only breaking loose on The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie's string-snapping solo, but he's there with the big riffs when the songs call for them, while singer Anthony Kiedis excels himself in the forlornness stakes on a sweet tribute to a friend, Brendan's Death Song.
Red Hot Chili Peppers: I'm With You – review
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Radical subjectivism brings the anguish and forlornness of existentialism to man at the close of dualism.
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The smile she'd had on her face slowly dissipated as a feeling of forlornness washed over her.
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Nor does it, as some supporters of the project insist, either convey unsettling, dizzy-making sensations, or employ milder, aesthetically educational means to let the forlornness of the victims be heard.
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Around that time, Drake called a friend, who said he could feel "the fear ... the dread, the forlornness" in Drake's voice.
Former NSA executive Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak
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Our choice in this moment of utter forlornness will change the form and the content of the universe.
Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp: Retrieving G-d's Hidden Rays of Light: A Global Partnership Is Emerging
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This helps us understand what the actual content is of such words as anguish, forlornness, despair.
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Saul Bellow literarily expounds the existentialism philosophy propositions of Sartre in Seize the Day: forlornness, anguish, death, individual choice and humane responsibility.
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How unspeakable, then, it struck her, that worldly arrangements should contribute to the forlornness of one's natural state!
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Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness.
Never Let Me Go: Summary and book reviews of Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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In at least this viewer's effort to make sense of things, those faces invited us to acknowledge the comic forlornness manifested by the other photographs - in other words, to accept them as true.
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Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned:
CHAPTER VII
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[Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
