How To Use forlornness In A Sentence
- 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
- [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
- Her reply began with a hint of forlornness that vanished with her smile, as she warned: CHAPTER VII
- 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.
- 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.
- How unspeakable, then, it struck her, that worldly arrangements should contribute to the forlornness of one's natural state!
- Saul Bellow literarily expounds the existentialism philosophy propositions of Sartre in Seize the Day: forlornness, anguish, death, individual choice and humane responsibility.
- This helps us understand what the actual content is of such words as anguish, forlornness, despair.
- {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
- 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
