Making crucial business decisions on one's own means that it can be lonely at the top. |
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I'm sure it must have been pretty lonely being the only Windows 3.1 user in the office. |
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Once more I find myself in an empty office, without a unicycle or even a CD to help pass the lonely hours. |
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After many hours of hunting, Ken found a lonely scallop and I found an interesting bottle. |
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Some may opt for a very plain style with only a ladder for access and a lonely light bulb for company. |
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Instead she spent lonely hours at home, scared that she may never hear again. |
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Police have stepped up patrols and are advising women to take precautions such as walking in groups and avoiding lonely areas. |
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He is believed to be a car thief, who used stolen cars to take victims to lonely areas before attacking them. |
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I wonder what a semi would be doing out on this lonely road, then I recognize it as a stock truck. |
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This is a lonely place with buildings shy of one another and spaced well apart, typical of Scottish Highland villages. |
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This was a lonely place where foxes and raccoons were often seen in those days. |
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The Showgrounds will be a fairly lonely place for the remainder of the season. |
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Many of them were black and white, and they were mainly of lonely places and people. |
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Howard, not knowing what he should do, sits on a couch in the middle of this lonely street that leads nowhere. |
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When a person dies, he or she is wrapped in a hammock and buried in a lonely place in the jungle on the mainland. |
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More than anything, however, the cottages' lonely location makes them a romantic's dream. |
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He and his wife have shifted from the City to this lonely place just to look after the garden. |
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There she met Joe McDuff, salt-of-the-earth bushman, who won Bettina's heart after rescuing her from her lonely bush camp. |
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There is a distant bridge, a small harbor, and a lonely road that leads to another beach town. |
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Even in rural farming districts, there is simply no such thing as a lonely road. |
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Western Australia is a land of open roads, of vehicle dependence and lonely highways. |
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Afterward we had one last drive around the rock before heading back to the lonely highway. |
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Consider Orford Ness, a lonely spit of land that was once the site of military tests and is now owned by the National Trust. |
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Liverpool can be a lonely place on a Saturday night, and this is only Thursday morning. |
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Jane is the bright spot in her lonely spinster's life, and a letter from Jane is what she lives and waits for. |
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I want you to realize that are better choices than being a lonely spinster. |
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Caldwell, then living in Dover, Kent, met the mother of the three-year-old boy through a lonely hearts advert. |
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There was so much cheese and we received extra bread crisps for free after we nommed the six lonely pieces that accompanied the first go around. |
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The lonely Harlan Pepper, a would-be ventriloquist and believer in animal ESP, has his hopes riding on Hubert the bloodhound. |
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The controlling perspective is that of a nightwalker, a lonely insomniac roaming the streets of a sleeping city. |
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Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade. |
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Like lonely hearts ads and introduction agencies, cyberdating used to be thought of as a last resort, but that is no longer the case. |
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I think a lot of people read lonely hearts columns with a great deal of interest. |
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Did you meet someone through our lonely hearts columns or has your business gone from strength to strength through advertising with us? |
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Linda Harris relates how, after the numbness of widowhood wore off, she found love again through the lonely hearts column of her local newspaper. |
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He targeted single mums with young children through chatlines and lonely heart adverts. |
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This doesn't usually matter too much unless you're meeting them after replying to a lonely hearts ad. |
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None of the women he met through lonely hearts columns have recognised the necklace. |
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The lonely wanderer followed the terrace path eastwards and quickly crossed the old bridge over the River Burien. |
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Had Jefferies described himself in a lonely hearts column, the spiel would have been remarkably similar. |
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Many men were adamant they have never used dating agencies or lonely hearts columns. |
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She answered an advertisement that he had placed in a newspaper lonely hearts column. |
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Ahead, along the lonely Stuart Highway, lay 900-plus miles of largely unrelieved emptiness all the way to Alice Springs, and beyond it, Uluru. |
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With a firm and unpatronising manner, he begins to build bridges towards the children's oppressed and lonely lives. |
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Both fell in love with a man who had suffered a lonely upbringing by distant and undemonstrative parents. |
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The bucardo, a Pyrenean mountain goat, became extinct in January, when the last of its kind was put out of its lonely misery by a falling tree. |
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In the film, Smith plays a New York date doctor who helps lonely singletons find love and romance. |
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The room is quite large, with four lonely single beds, a sterile ensuite shower and separate toilet. |
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He seduces a lonely teenage girl and becomes a hero to her younger brother, but dangerous forces lurk beneath his silver-tongued surface. |
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The lonely front door comes alive in a red and yellow blaze, the reflection of a gas station sign. |
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The room seem pretty bare, blank walls, holding that nasty lonely chill inside. |
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I'd planned a quick stroll on the main route, but I keep getting sidetracked by spur paths leading to lovely, lonely beaches. |
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Taormina, once a lonely place, full of beauty, had turned into a friendly place, full of beauty. |
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A reprieved Dr Rob turns over a new leaf, and places an illustrated lonely hearts ad. |
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A scared face looked back at her, and a lonely and sick emotion filled the eyes of that face. |
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A few cars passed through the lonely yellow of the street lights, their tires making soft shushing sounds on the wet pavement. |
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The usual modus operandi was that robbers identified isolated residential localities and targeted lonely women. |
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This was no shrinking violet who wrote his poetry from the lonely vantage of an ivory tower. |
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He can turn the state of lonely self-loathing into a veritable inferno of seething threats, fans, mockers, competitors. |
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While on a window washing assignment, Wallace gets romantically involved with a lonely shop owner. |
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The man upstairs's painted as a lonely misfit who's as perplexed by his role as everyone else. |
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The cracking of stock-whips among the tree-ferns near may cause the lonely hut dweller to swing the billy, intent on hospitable thoughts. |
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They've left her all alone to deal with minging mother Lyn and her incessant whining about being a lonely geriatric single mother of a toddler. |
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Though always busy with his work, Michael never forgot to enquire for friends who were sick, lonely or fell on hard times. |
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A lonely tear traced a path much traveled down her cheek, but she wiped it away. |
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Repelled by crowded Europe, he opts for Southland, but is lonely and bereft. |
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Now, the shadow of sadness had grown, and Anne began to grow lonely at night. |
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There was a weeping willow shading two lonely gravestones, alienated from all the others. |
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The night was not lonely either, as quite a few regulars danced cheerfully to merry tunes in the moonlight. |
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Its calls epitomise the atmosphere of the lonely marshes and tideways where it is found. |
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He also remembered the dark and lonely nights he and his mother spent waiting for Herb to return from one of his frequent three-day benders. |
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A lonely violin and piano play out the final three minutes of the record, augmented by a lazy bass drum. |
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His talent for wringing bitter humor out of miserable lonely men is matchless. |
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Beyond, out of sight, rise the peaks of the Grampian massif, the high heart of Scotland with its austere tracks leading to lonely places. |
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Thousands of Seabees served in combat areas of Korea during the war, but many other Seabees were stationed in lonely outposts all over the world. |
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This time, a lonely little girl's imaginary friend turns real and decides that adults are scum. |
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The farmer put his hand to the plough to find brides for lonely country men. |
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Picked as the ransom bagman, Callahan is run ragged by Scorpio, but eventually the pair meet in the dead of night in a lonely park. |
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A lonely airport baggage handler picks up a pregnant hitchhiker during a fierce late-night storm. |
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Even worse, it wasn't unheard of for foreign expatriates or discharged soldiers to form bands of brigands that terrorized lonely travelers. |
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This latest backward glance is more lonely lunchtime housewife than supper-club romance or hell-of-a-day blues. |
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Strangers may try to take advantage of lonely seniors through telemarketing scams. |
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For far too long McGrath has ploughed a lonely furrow, been the shining light for Waterford without the adequate support but not this year. |
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The music of an enigmatic pop singer is the only salvation for some lonely teens in this intermittently extraordinary film. |
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We give by baking cookies for a neighbour, offering to babysit for weary parents or spending time with a lonely person. |
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I'd rather face up to the finality and get on with my life, lonely or not, for as long as it lasts. |
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Anything to keep oneself entertained on those long, lonely evenings when pining for unavailable men. |
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He sends her to live in comfort in a lonely manor-house, only prohibiting her from seeing him or her children again. |
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The reality, of course, is that it's often lonely in those fancy hotels or in restaurants chowing down sushi or sauerbraten on your own. |
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Setting up you own business can be very satisfying and fulfilling, but it can be very lonely and isolating and is very hard work. |
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I saw then how it fared forth along lonely paths or alone upon the highway. |
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It was a lonely walk, deep into an abyss that beckoned like a black hole, a fallen star. |
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Two lonely people fantasized a burial in wood from oak trees planted by their own hands. |
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The idea of Jesse warms my heart immensely and gives me some happiness when I otherwise would feel lonely and bitter. |
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Modelling was great in some ways but I felt it was a very lonely career as well. |
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It was so boring and lonely sitting making cold calls to potential clients all day. |
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In a culture where relationships outside wedlock are frowned upon, many women are living lives of lonely misery, she said. |
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Caroline is tired, lonely and depressed even as she leads a fake, but highly active, social life. |
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We were poor, weak and lonely and we were viewed as a failed state and a pariah nation. |
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Perhaps there is an elderly person in your area who may be lonely and would welcome a friendly gesture to join you on the trip. |
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It searches among the yucca cactuses and Joshua trees for a lonely radar station atop a mountain peak. |
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There was something lonely about the figure of the old man wandering along the fencerow filled with sassafras and elderberry. |
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Finally released, the adulteress took up residence in a lonely cottage by the sea. |
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This run-down, tin-roof dwelling in lonely bush country is a gorgeous chunk of rustic Australiana. |
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We saw a lonely cabin, lights radiating from within like an Advent calendar. |
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And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? |
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One can only hope some lonely auditor somewhere is figuring out what ratholes those funds went down too. |
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Tonka Bean Trace is a narrow, lonely road, with large pot holes which runs uphill between bamboo stools and high razor grass. |
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The sound of cars whizzing by on the lonely suburban road always had a calming effect on him. |
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And here I was hoping to keep you company in this huge lonely palace, but you already have someone to entertain you. |
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He is a lonely old man who saw a young girl and told her she was beautiful. |
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I dance for lonely men, men who feel neglected, men who need the feigned affection and artful wiles of the dancer. |
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There was essentially nothing to be seen, just the occasional fences, thick green, wind-blown grass, cows and a handful of lonely cars. |
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The fen part of the county, with its vast horizons and lonely windswept fields, has always been an acquired taste. |
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Think of how a kind word spoken at the right time, or a special card sent to someone lonely or hurting can lift their spirits. |
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And maybe some people will join because they feel lonely and want to be part of a group that treats them kindly and with respect. |
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This was the only way a kindred soul could recognise you, saving you from a lonely existence. |
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In a complex of lonely and socially clumsy bachelors, disheartened by too many rejections, she was news. |
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The world is full of very lonely people, and it's safe to assume that a lot of people lurking and talking in online chat rooms are among them. |
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For years he was regarded as a solitary pip-squeak voice on the far right, a lonely ideologue from a Southern backwater. |
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The river carves its lonely course through dense cloud forest and canyon gorges. |
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It is quite lonely being one of the only clergywoman and you notice it more when you are the only woman in a room full of male clergy. |
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Children who are highly relationally aggressive feel lonely and depressed and tend to feel badly about themselves and their social situations. |
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I think being a writer you never need to feel alone or lonely ever again because it's like you've created your own world. |
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I stayed awake in the dark, my eyes on the shadows, alone and lonely all night. |
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The road, where at points the wind raised swirls of white dust without itself being felt, was as lonely as though no one had ever been along it. |
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You made my life one breathless thrill then left me on this lonely bed, with no instructions how to fill the chiliads of hours ahead. |
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Gloria Bennet is well known for befriending lonely and homeless people in Devizes. |
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Sometimes you feel very lonely and down, but to see all the kids having a good time cheers you up and gives you hope. |
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The last twenty years of Plumb's life were increasingly sad, lonely and unhappy. |
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The charity desperately needs volunteers who would be willing to spend even one hour a week just talking to lonely older people, he says. |
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Most lonely people remain that way, only occasionally lifted out of their hermit-like social life to experience bitter disappointment. |
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You get lonely on your own at 3am, and it's like being amongst old friends in here. |
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As he plied me with mint tea and Belgian chocolates it struck me that, despite appearances, he was a lonely and frightened man. |
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This compromise I would not make, not for love or money or threats of a lonely old age. |
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It was a lonely evening somewhere about 6 p.m. when sails were set and we quietly sailed out to the open sea. |
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Her character gets a lecture from a minicab driver about how lonely her frosty singledom has made her. |
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It is a short step to lording it over your dispirited, lonely and inevitably disappointed wife, and your deracinated offspring. |
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She finally understood that God had indeed heard her prayers every cold and lonely night. |
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I suppose it can be a lonely life but we're all loners and mavericks to some extent and I am happy by myself. |
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The UK government's obsession with tackling antisocial behaviour is making society even more lonely and fragmented. |
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Meanwhile, Lacey is an existentialist who always is antisocial and lonely and blames everyone but herself for it. |
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The uncompromising lives of service lived by lonely lighthouse keepers possess a special dignity. |
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A bachelor meets a woman through a lonely hearts column with dramatic results. |
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This companionship extended into early summer when the stonechat family was fed both in and out of the nest by the lonely Dartford. |
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No longer is it the lonely haunted place with alleys and dark doorways ready to hide the criminal and the sleuth. |
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Regulars, passers-by and lonely old men all cross the threshold in search of a cappuccino and a bit of a chat. |
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I joined an internet dating agency, but had no luck, then moved on to answering ads in a local newspaper lonely hearts column. |
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No matter how rotten the day had been or how lonely his life had become, she ignited a spark inside him that he'd considered dead and buried. |
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McBurney captures precisely the lonely oddity of individual lives that characterises Murakami's work. |
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What else could be as lonely as that lone tear long dried but never fully shed on her cheek? |
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They have paid no dues, done no time, served no apprenticeship of lonely toil on pop's equivalent of the handloom. |
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Those handful of days were long enough to realize how lonely an old timer could truly be. |
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The new girl's supposed to be lonely and have no friends for at least a month and a half. |
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Living as she is was miserable and lonely with no friends or loved ones to care about her. |
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Two paintings and a bizarre set of events bring these five very different and lonely people together to dine by candlelight. |
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I valued the film as a warm observational portrait of a brief, yet fruitful, encounter between two lonely and isolated persons. |
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Olga is a lonely but spirited old woman whose children live abroad and seldom visit. |
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Back in September I wrote about Al, a lonely widower sitting on his front porch. |
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He is going to end up a lonely old man whose kids only call him on holidays because they feel like they have to. |
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It was almost three hours later when Quinn shook himself out of his lonely thoughts. |
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If you want to compete at the Boston Marathon you have to be willing to put in the lonely hours of work. |
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Read your glossy magazines and dream away the long, lonely hours with thoughts of when your chance might come. |
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There is a harsh, lonely element that runs through much of the IAS material, droning passages, a juxtaposition of numerable repetitious melodies. |
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Liz made her way onto the lonely subway car and sat quietly as it headed toward her side of town. |
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Many slipped through the net completely and were left to fill lonely hours without money, resources and help. |
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Arms and legs are getting goosepimply and lonely sweaters now have companions. |
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There are the occasional journeys into the belly of the spaceship, which looks like a lonely ham radio operator's Tandy designed bedroom. |
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Should you have half an hour to spare you can take a lovely lonely walk around the Dome. |
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I think that whole experience with The starry Messenger was ultimately a kind of lonely one for him, and yet it strengthened him. |
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The body lay in an aboveground marble sarcophagus guarded by no groundskeepers or watchmen, just one lonely padlock. |
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But soon the lonely Chip begins stalking him, leaving tons of messages on his answering machine. |
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I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world. |
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That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election. |
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The South responded in kind by bombarding an equally lonely patch of ocean, just north of the border. |
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In the midst of all her bombast, I suddenly saw her as the sad, lonely old woman she was. |
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They want Marvin to be as mean and as lonely and as trashy as the characters he portrays. |
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Nor is it true that childless people are doomed, as the pope warned, to be lonely and sad in their old age. |
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When Brennan rides up to the way station, the stationmaster confesses that he is lonely out in the wilderness, and that being lonely is no way to live. |
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We compare the radiant blues and greens of our fragile planet to the blackness of the cosmos, and recognize the infinite preciousness of our lonely home. |
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Two eight-year-olds, Julien and Sophie, are lonely kindred spirits. |
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When the lonely bagpipe finally plays a somber song for either entity, its wraithlike warble filling the air with all manner of mixed emotions, it will not be a celebration. |
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The little unincorporated community sits in a lonely stretch of hot desert amidst black rocks and saguaro cactuses. |
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The 289-page satire follows Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman who gets seduced by a lonely receptionist. |
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The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond. |
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However, most of the film occurs in Spider's mind and memory, as he relives his childhood as a lonely youth whose only human contact seems to be his parents. |
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When Raymond was growing up, Strawberry Patch Road was a place of lonely roads and double-wide trailers. |
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As a thirty-six-year-old olive-skinned Puerto Rican woman, Maddy had been doubly lonely since the first week of trial. |
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A lonely widow repining for the past while enduring the boisterous attentions of her clumsy Irish housekeeper encounters a cripple collecting money for an invalid hospital. |
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A lonely woman in a late-night grocery store sees a sexy guy in galoshes. |
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Despite Reuven's straight A report card in school, he is lonely and sad. |
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Nomani said her activism, which took root before the emergence of social media, has often been lonely and isolating. |
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They have travelled throughout the wide areas served by the RFDS and lived for a time with the people who stay and work in remote and lonely regions. |
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Our arctophily extends to collecting items showing Teddy Bears as well as books, but is clearly focused towards offering lonely Teddy Bears a new home. |
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All the liveliness of the evening had been replaced by lonely silence. |
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The product of a lonely and rootless childhood, she seems always to have hungered for public recognition and apparently never considered marriage. |
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Bunkered in a gated community, away from friends and foes alike, John Edwards lives a lonely life. |
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An old lady is a bit lonely and decides she needs a pet for company. |
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He may be in the wrong but he's old, lonely and feeling betrayed. |
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A lonely housewife starts up a friendship with a pet portrait painter. |
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Mine is a lonely existence, because no training partner can stay with me. |
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For some that had travelled to the city, life became a lonely existence. |
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The beach looked rather lonely on a usually crowded Sunday afternoon. |
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You can reach the mountain top and find it a desolate and lonely place. |
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The castle always felt like such a cold and lonely place when he returned. |
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Mort doesn't seem like the sort to attend lonely hearts meetings. |
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There is not even a lonely hearts column in the local paper. |
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He has tried lonely hearts columns in local newspapers a few times. |
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Dear me, it was reading like an ad for a lonely hearts column! |
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No matter the cultural era or technological advances, it seems that as long as there have been lonely hearts, there have been lonely hearts clubs. |
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The 64-year-old mother-of-four was advertised in an internet lonely hearts room by her son because he thought his mother needed someone to talk to. |
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Intrigued by an advertisement he has placed in a lonely hearts column, she and Rebecca contact him simply to see what sort of person would place such an ad. |
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Many cats belong to elderly, lonely people, their only companion is their furry feline. To them the loss of their beloved friend is akin to losing a close relative. |
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The witness described a greasy film on the car and a lonely piece of buttered toast lying nearby. |
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But he is no sentimentalist, and never shies from the harsh realities of that lonely spot. |
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He, is an introspective artist whose success has left him in a lonely place, where livelihoods rest on his shoulders and old friends regularly tap him for money and favors. |
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Oblivious to his hectic surroundings, the man carried on with his lonely saunter until he reached an uncharacteristically quiet corner of the courtyard void of any activity. |
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She is a sad, lonely career girl whose financial precariousness makes her a highly suggestible young lady who will clearly do almost anything for a sawbuck. |
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It's a statement from The Huffington Post that being a standalone media product, no matter how mighty, can be a lonely place. |
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A lonely young woman gets drawn into an online forum and is asked to impersonate someone else. |
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To be a woman suffering from a drinking problem in America is a lonely enterprise, defined by stigma and judgment. |
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We've scrawled some things into a copy book that describe how we feel when we're lonely or an image we remember from an intense period of loneliness. |
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The matron is a firm believer in the ability of dogs to help patients feel less lonely and depressed and decided to unleash canine healing power onto the wards. |
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Yet if his lonely experience in prison could be called Kafkaesque, then so too could his life before he was sentenced. |
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Each day, he sits on the edge of his bed, head hung in a state of lonely tristesse while the mellifluous tick-tock of a grandfather clock marks time. |
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But the marriage was loveless and lonely and McRay found herself meandering the manicured grounds, plotting her escape. |
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Here we are shambling and wounded and lonely at the end of the world. |
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Where I see a politician bestriding the British political scene, he sees a lonely figure, in constant danger of a painstaking alliance fracturing apart. |
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In this sequel, he took off from a prologue featuring Byron and Mary Shelley discussing sequel possibilities before introducing the lonely creature's shock-headed bride. |
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Whatever happens, Boeing finds itself in a lonely place as a true believer in the technology. |
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There is nothing heroic about sitting in a small, cold room in the depths of winter as you get through your eight or ten hour shift as part of a lonely factory occupation. |
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When you are doing well there are always plenty of people around to slap you on the back but you can feel pretty lonely when you are sidelined and not involved in the action. |
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A lonely plastic bag made it's way like tumbleweed down the vacant street. |
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After work, I would come home to my lonely apartment, pop a TV dinner in the microwave, and watch the television for the next few hours before going to sleep. |
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Then I feel like a very lonely lizard in a boiling hot desert. |
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White captures how lonely people get trapped in a vicious circle, shunning social events because being alone is more comfortable. |
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How lonely and worrying it must have been when John was away for days and weeks at a time, mustering wild cattle in country as dangerous as it gets for horses and men. |
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All the characters in Things You Can Tell are lonely and unfulfilled. |
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What's the key to surviving those long, lonely Arctic slumbers? |
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Too often, a single shelving unit may sit crammed full with materials, while a lonely corner or area beneath a work table sits empty and unutilized. |
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His trip becomes a living nightmare when he stops off en route to pick up his ne'er-do-well brother Fuller, who persuades him to play a joke on a lonely trucker. |
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Then in the gloaming I can just make out a series of variegated camouflage sheets, the size of lonely single beds, strung between the trunks about 2ft off the ground. |
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Men know him as a lonely figure riding of a morning through Rock Creek Park, wearing an immense sombrero, kid gloves, buff waistcoat and an old riding coat. |
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Brooks had focused on one line from the chorus and felt the song would be stronger with the song centered on the lonely man spinning the records late at night. |
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Should we start to close down the internet, that great forum of free expression which is continually giving voice to the sad, the lonely and the downright insane? |
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The opening movement, for flute and strings, calls up the lonely hills. |
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But after marrying a rich, lonely heiress, his moral compass swerves in reassuringly complex ways. |
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Has Ramon considered the fact that more than a few of them might be very lonely people, frustrated housewives with psychotic husbands or just nutters? |
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Her long and lonely outcast life has led her to be cold and depressed. |
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Instead, on lonely curves, we'd pass a young man in a tall, conical knitted hat and a bright embroidered jacket, walking along playing a tiny guitar, a charango, to himself. |
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If you see me in the street and engage in conversation I will probably freeze into polite fear and smile inanely until I can get away to be on my lonely ownsome. |
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I looked down at the little ashtray on his gold coloured hostess trolley, two lonely pound coins looked back up at me, so I ferreted around in my pocket for something smaller. |
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Playmate, friend and confidant, his alien chum is a compensation for the lonely hurt of an absent father and a shrill mother failing to cope with life as a single parent. |
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Their mystery deepens at nightfall over the landscape, and as bitter winds howl and shriek in the lonely valleys and impenetrable thickets of tall and spiky trees. |
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And I suspect that it was this sense of mischief that kept her sane through all those lonely evenings passed at charitable fund-raising events being fawned over by sycophants. |
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She lives a pathetically lonely life with no companionship except her cat. |
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Instead, the borough's mayor is urging schools, churches and voluntary groups to club together and make sure lonely elderly people still enjoy Christmas cheer. |
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She activated something in her high heels and with a sudden ignition of fire from her actual heels, gently floated to the lonely and flooded street. |
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And as they did in the imperial era, the lonely men of the remote hinterland clamour for a wife with potentially profound consequences for the entire nation. |
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When Darwin set sail on the Beagle in 1831, he was taken along primarily as a companion for the captain, Robert Fitzroy, who feared growing lonely and melancholy. |
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When you feel lonely for companionship, invite a friend to dinner. |
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They were a devoted couple who were very content in each others company and the sympathy of the whole community goes out to Lionel in these sad and lonely days. |
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The fact is that he sounds so, well, jolly contented, and perhaps a bit of lonely yearning would have made the material a little more challenging and rewarding. |
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A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. |
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Michelle Schantz's image of a lonely cabin illuminated under the Northern Lights in Finnmark, Norway, took home the viewer's choice award. |
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She eliminated those lonely treeless farmhouses with the sun beating on their shining gal-iron roofs. |
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Alison befriends lonely Giant Panda and skips happily in a meadow with it. |
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A solar-powered unmanned aerial system could fly long, lonely missions that conventional aircraft would not be capable of. |
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He would have been lonely but for the comradeships of the various clubs to which he belonged. |
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So, who do you call when your life has been turned upsidedown and you are living the narrow and somewhat lonely life of a cancer patient? |
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I found him, lonely and unbefriended, the very next night after our talk, at the Dugald Delanes' burra-khana. |
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Beautifully presented and with plenty of filling, the open sandwich was a little bit lonely on the plate with no garnish. |
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I feel lonely at times, but then somebody phones, or calls round, and I cheer up again. |
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In the mountains too angels sang to the lonely shepherds. A lion roared on an angelless mountain. |
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Throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love, my moonlight. |
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If I am panicking it means I am lonely or overwhelmed, or it can also be that I am spiritually and maybe even chemically misaligned. |
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James MacMillan's gigues, waltzes, and lonely Satie-like piano music were darkened by sirens and rumbles. |
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They were lonely servants providing an oasis in a long, desert path. |
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At the same time, let your husband know how lonely and redundant you feel and tell him you're not going to become a golf widow. |
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She is lonely and guilt-ridden over the circumstances surrounding Rachel's death. |
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It seemed that soon the lonely Phone Booth would be carted away to the dump with other obsolete phone booths. |
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Instead of the bland, beautiful brigade of fame seekers, this lonely hearts line-up is as raggedy as a haystack and as doe-eyed as a cow. |
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As many as one in seven mothers will experience postpartum depression, and the experience can be particularly lonely and difficult. |
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I was also attracted by the lonely green plant, which sits next to the hitching post at left. |
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In 1985, while working in El Salvador, I prayed at the lonely place where they were killed. |
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The sight of a lonely man, with no-one around him to help, powerlessly watching on as the world spins in front of him. |
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Hoffman plays Mr Hoppy, a shy and lonely old man who lives in a block of flats. |
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As a result, his rep rehab remains a lonely and futile mission. |
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Nearly 4,000 miles east of Moscow, on a hill above the city of Magadan, a lonely concrete monument recalls the victims of the Gulag. |
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Weeks go by, and lonely man and beast form an unlikely, weirdly eroticized bond. |
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Trolling around in the shadowy basements of our pysches and societies, the best of these lonely shamuses try to unmask the nature of evil itself. |
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My headlights caught a lonely figure under the elevated train tracks. |
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And how about a few lap dancers to brighten up those lonely nights in the cells? |
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Is Bea Nightingale a lonely Keatsian voice thrilling in its sound and isolate in its power? |
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But instead she kept running into men with rap sheets as long as her lonely arms. |
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The lonely millionaire reflected bitterly on the unpurchasability of true love. |
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On lonely twisties in upstate New York, the driver of a Porsche Boxster S surely found my unshakable Mini anything but cute. |
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I hope we find some nicer spot than this. This looks so lonely and spookish. |
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Jake had gone from the center of a teeming throng of people to the solitudinous emptiness of his lonely house. |
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As the minutes tick past and I continue my lonely vigil, I realise that I have wasted a whole day. |
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