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Charlotte Lawrence loves a good, gut-wrenching, sad song.—
Leah Lu,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025 -
Advertisement Advertisement Apologists for Israeli Government policy may argue that Israel is not intentionally starving people in Gaza, dismissing the famine as a sad consequence of a war, but the traditional Jewish sources are unequivocal.—
Michael S. Roth,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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Only Hunter Goodman, a catcher who played for Hartford in 2022 and 23, will represent the woebegone franchise in the All-Star Game.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
13 July 2025
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While examples abound, the state’s woebegone bullet train project, its tortuous efforts to implement information technology and the financial and managerial meltdown of its unemployment insurance program are among the most egregious.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
26 Apr. 2025
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What might be lost on moviegoers is the crestfallen murmurings that came with the 1990 publication of Vineland.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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When Will Zellers was first told by his advisor that he was traded last March, the Green Bay Gambler was crestfallen.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
3 July 2025
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Dan, who sometimes looks a little forlorn, is troubled by something...—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 July 2025
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The forlorn and broken-hearted are now tortured with watching an ex’s new life unfold right on their phone.—
Dana Feldman,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Had that been the case, my glum head would have hit the pillow last night with nothing but images of Emil Bove to put me to sleep unamused. — Joe Pachino, Baltimore Add your voice: Respond to this piece or other Sun content by submitting your own letter.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
18 July 2025
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Losses weren’t quite as dire as on Thursday for media and tech stocks, but the morning still signaled a glum end to a turbulent week.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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Bubblegum pink palettes were exchanged for gloomier blacks, reds, and earthy browns.—
Daron James,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair Wednesday's roommate, Enid Sinclair, quickly became one of the series' fan favorites, thanks to Emma Myers' portrayal of the werewolf-in-training as a positive (and colorful) influence on the gloomy protagonist.—
Karli Bendlin,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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As Wilshere and his players greeted the Norwich fans, across the Riverside pitch, Michael Carrick and his Middlesbrough squad were conducting a disconsolate lap of appreciation in a largely emptied stadium.—
Michael Walker,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2025
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After noticing disconsolate tourists wandering the perimeter, Taskinen proposed installing a café on the ground floor and restoring the building’s four spacious apartments into modest but comfortable rooms filled with Artek furniture.—
Michael Snyder,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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About two centuries later, Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine, touchingly vulnerable) writes increasingly despondent letters from the Belgian front in World War I. One of those missives crosses the desk of Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield), a brainy clerk at the London censorship office.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Aug. 2025
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At what was supposed to be his final asylum hearing on March 20, Rodríguez Parra’s lawyer sounded despondent.—
Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
18 July 2025
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“Triste.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triste. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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