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  1. looking very sad

84 Sentences With "woebegone"

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He spent a fortune on tickets for a woebegone baseball team.
Plenty of people are even talking playoffs for the usually woebegone Browns.
But when the game began, the woebegone Jets quickly raced to a two-touchdown lead.
Many high school or college students feel woebegone: Parents are annoying or teachers are oppressive.
Editorial Notebook Among the cash-raising ideas for New York City's woebegone subways is Gov.
Still, the backstop of proper Windows 10 reveals just how woebegone Chrome OS has become.
Next, we meet the earlier Judith as a woebegone Cinderella, working at a London auction house.
One week into N.B.A. free agency, two historically woebegone franchises have reveled in the splashiest acquisitions.
His proclaimed defiance was a misstep that only served to make an already-woebegone season bleaker.
I wanted the opposite of conversation, because for this brief, woebegone interlude, what was there to say?
Above, in a blue dress, searching and despairing, was the faint figure of Demeter, the woebegone mother.
THE face that stares from Kim Jong Su's passport shows a rather woebegone man in suit and tie.
Wendle's sacrifice fly scored Maxwell and finished Gee's night after 74 pitches and 3 1/3 woebegone innings.
Nevertheless, it's amazing that two woebegone franchises somehow managed to blow what seemed to be certain playoff victories.
In truth, as troubled as mass transit is, it isn't as woebegone as it was in the '70s.
Unfortunately, Miller can't resist the impulse to tie Louis's messy tangle of woebegone threads into a tidy, mawkish bow.
He is widowed and woebegone, with three young offspring to care for: Annabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael Saleh), and Georgie.
Could it really be Connor McDavid, the 19-year-old prodigy charged with restoring the woebegone Edmonton Oilers to prominence?
With back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning, the woebegone Twins had broken open a previously one-run game.
Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — SPEAKING of crazy … All these woebegone Republicans whining that they can't rally behind their flawed candidate is crazy.
Flanked by springtime roses in a quiet forest, her rounded curves invite the gaze, as her woebegone expression suggests a deeper melancholia.
Woebegone Rick Honeycutt saw a thumbtack on the way to the bullpen and decided to use it to mark up a ball.
They lost to the woebegone, process-driven Philadelphia 76ers, who in recent seasons have recently served as the laughingstocks of the league.
America's frackers need only look at the country's woebegone coalminers to catch a glimpse of their fate in a distant post-oil future.
For this reason, NCLB's requirement all students should be proficient was ridiculed as being like Lake Woebegone, where all students are above average.
Suspending folklore and nightmare in a slurry of Catholic guilt, the writer and director, Michael Tully, cultivates a woebegone atmosphere and a woozy tone.
As a professor of leadership and a news junkie, I have been disappointed in the performances of our most visible leaders throughout the woebegone 85033.
My heart aches for the woebegone vacationer whose luggage pops open in the middle of a terminal, sending espadrilles and wraps flying everywhere (yes, I've seen it).
Graying at the temples, with pouches under his eyes that push his face toward woebegone, he looked handsome, shambolic, exhausted — a lion left out in the rain.
Rookies guide 76ers past Nets PHILADELPHIA — The woebegone Philadelphia 76ers, forever in need of a pick-me-up, received one on Saturday night from two of their rookies.
Maria was a major blow to an already-woebegone island, whose $120 billion in combined bond and pension debt triggered the largest-ever U.S. government bankruptcy filing last May.
Whenever either star is resting, the other must essentially play one-on-five; when both are on the bench, the Thunder are barely better than the woebegone Philadelphia 76ers.
She noted that Vice's reporting on the Fyre Festival, the woebegone Caribbean mega-concert two years ago, helped the company produce a popular documentary, "Fyre," that ran on Netflix.
With his performance Sunday night, he avoided another dubious distinction with West, that familiar woebegone figure, who just happens to now work as an executive board member with the Warriors.
Op-Art In recent months, with New York's increasingly woebegone subway system struggling to fix its problems, a conundrum has emerged: As the city's population grows, subway ridership is falling.
"They call it the souvenir shop," he says of his graceful church, which was founded in 1767, and there's a woebegone scene in which he gives three visitors a guided tour.
Jetting from the place where you have put down roots and are established might be a great adventure ... or, it might make you woebegone and wistful for what is, well, gone.
That such a woebegone project attracted such a largely first-rate cast is peculiar but not inexplicable; sometimes the urge to bite the hand that feeds you overwhelms your quality control filter.
Improbably, Taylor again led the woebegone Browns up field smartly and quickly, leading to a 52-yard field-goal attempt by Gonzalez that would have tied the game with eight seconds left.
The Padres are still a last-place team trying to stop a string of eight consecutive losing seasons, the longest stretch of futility since the brown-and-gold beginnings of this woebegone franchise.
As years passed, my bust grew out of cutesy Victoria's Secret styles, forcing me to scour through racks of woebegone beige bras, settling for literally anything that appeared to keep my chest in check.
After 20 years' intimacy with the Wordsworth circle, De Quincey left, as Wilson puts it, the University of the Lakes for the Athens of the North, trailing a woebegone brood of motherless children behind him.
BRANTLEY The woebegone Land of Brexit is very well represented here in general, what with "Cursed Child" (which first opened in the West End) and "Angels" (from London's National Theater), which have 21 nominations between them.
Even before Sanders' woebegone Tuesday — marked by losses to Joe Biden throughout the South and in Massachusetts and Minnesota — a Detroit News/WDIV-TV poll put Biden ahead of Sanders by nearly 7 percentage points in Michigan.
Twenty-five years later, Thorn was the architect of the best trade in Nets history as the general manager who brought in Jason Kidd, who then led the woebegone franchise to back-to-back trips to the N.B.A. finals.
And if anyone thinks the piece itself has dated, try this query on for size: "Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?" asks Roxie's woebegone victim, a cue straight from today's "fake news" playbook.
Starring a charmingly woebegone Daniel Radcliffe, this documentary comedy-fantasy offers the 21st-century equivalent of a magic show, in which audiences leave on their smartphones and Big Brother looks into what passes for their souls through surveillance technology (2:30).
Starring a charmingly woebegone Daniel Radcliffe, this documentary comedy-fantasy offers the 21st-century equivalent of a magic show, in which audiences leave on their smartphones and Big Brother looks into what passes for their souls through surveillance technology (230:2210).
In DESPERATE VALOUR: Triumph at Anzio (Da Capo, $21942), Flint Whitlock does a particularly good job of combining letters, memoirs and oral histories to show what that woebegone Allied landing near Rome in January 212 was like for the enlisted soldier.
Downes's own meticulously descriptive pictures of the woebegone subjects that he favors—industrial zones, Texas deserts, highway structures, the New Jersey Meadowlands—do that, too, with a deadpan restraint that has kept his fan base small but ardent throughout the half century of his career.
"They're going to boo me," Butler said of the Minnesota fans who watched him force his way out of town via a trade to the Philadelphia 76ers in November — months after Butler led the woebegone Timberwolves to their first playoff berth in 14 seasons.
Duff, with affected old Hollywood diction, plays Tate as a woebegone mother-to-be, helplessly awaiting husband Roman Polanski's return as she's tormented by nightmares of a man known only as "Charlie," who she thinks is out to get her, her unborn child, and her friends.
This London-born production from 2014 — which opened in an updated, Americanized version ("Brexit" jokes!) at the Public Theater on Monday night — stars a charmingly woebegone Daniel Radcliffe as a writer who has conflicted feelings about all his relationships, but especially the one with the internet.
Shore has peers in a generation that, in the nineteen-seventies, stormed to eminence with color film, which art photographers had long disdained, and, often, with a detached scrutiny of suburban sprawl, woebegone towns, touristed nature, cars (always cars), and other familiar and banal, accidentally beautiful, cross-country phenomena.
Pollard played the woebegone Fauss to Mr. Redford's womanizing Halsy.) He went on to prominent roles in films like "Dirty Little Billy" (1972), "Roxanne" (1987) and "Melvin and Howard" (1980), the story of Melvin Dummar, a gas station owner in Utah who claimed to be Howard Hughes's beneficiary.
And as my fellow Jews the world over light menorahs, the eternal flames twisting through centuries to connect them to their woebegone forebears, my family will gather to pay our respects to Hanukkah Harry, the Not Ready for Prime Time Player who delivers toys to Jewish girls and Jewish boys.
"[T]hose angry loners — the ones who shoot up schools and concerts and churches, who gun down the women and men they covet and envy, who let loose some spirit of anarchic animus upon the world — there's almost a woebegone mythos placed on them in the search for answers," he added.
Instantly, the woebegone Palestinian cause and the crisis in Gaza were back in the news, and even the demand for a right of return to Israeli land — one that many supporters of a two-state solution seemed ready to throw overboard — was being taken seriously, cheering Palestinians in refugee camps and the diaspora.
Coming on top of the Zika epidemic, reports of terrible conditions in the Olympic Village, low ticket sales, police violence, a suspended president facing impeachment and a Russian team depleted by the doping scandal, the news of the contaminated waters certify that the Rio Olympics will be one of the most disorderly and woebegone in the 120 years since the modern Games began in Athens.
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).
In 2006, Pennsylvania lawyer Marc Bragg ("Marc Woebegone" in Second Life) brought a lawsuit against Second Life developer Linden Lab when his account was disabled by administrators. The case was eventually settled out of court.
Unlike Jon, who is very enthusiastic about it, Garfield doesn't take to the outdoors, stating that "it would be greater if it were inside". As night falls, the trio listen to the radio which is interrupted by a news bulletin about a panther that has escaped from a local zoo earlier that morning and been reported in the Lake Woebegone area. Right after this news on the radio, the announcer says: "We now return to our regular broadcast of fun music." (It then plays "So Long Old Friend" from the first Garfield TV special.) Believing the news, Garfield is terrified and wants to leave, but Jon assures him that Lake Woebegone is miles from their location and that they're perfectly safe.
His series of children's novels, Tales From Schwartzgarten, is published by Orchard Books, and comprises Osbert The Avenger (2012), The Woebegone Twins (2013), The Lily-Livered Prince (2014) and Marius And The Band Of Blood (2015). His children's novel, What Manor Of Murder? was published in 2018 by Orchard Books. Osbert The Avenger won the East Sussex Children's Book Award.
An odd mix of cops, including a transsexual and an Elvis impersonator, are given one final opportunity to distinguish themselves in the field of law enforcement, when they are assigned to the 56th Precinct, LA's seediest and most woebegone unit. Under the leadership of Capt. Rick Wright, these losers-in-blue attempt possible redemption, if they can make an arrest without killing themselves.
1, 2007). On October 4, 2007, Linden Lab announced that it reached a confidential settlement with Bragg: > The parties agree that there were unfortunate disagreements and > miscommunications regarding the conduct and behavior by both sides and are > pleased to report that Mr. Bragg's "Marc Woebegone" account, privileges and > responsibilities to the Second Life community have been restored.Marty > Linden, Resolution of Lawsuit, Second Life Blogs (Oct. 4, 2007).
Praise was particularly given to the two main actors, Shaun Glenville and Peggy Cummins. Despite the latter's young age, Kinematograph Weekly predicted that "Given the chance, she'll go far". Halliwell's Film Guide describes it as a "somewhat woebegone tearjerker with an interesting cast". The film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.
A. Drama Critics Embrace 13, Stephen Adly Guirgis and Zanna, Don't! in Annual Awards" playbill.com, March 18, 2008 Julio Martinez of Variety said the play "takes a jaundiced look at Mayor Rudy Giuliani's 1990s New York City beautification project and its effect on a group of Hell's Kitchen locals. Helmer David Fofi advances Guirgis' agenda thanks to a perfectly cast 12-member ensemble embodying the woebegone urbanites whose shaky sense of stability has been totally disrupted.
" Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Leonard Part 6 is a smug, tedious exercise in self-indulgence ... There's virtually nothing to laugh at in this film, and too much of everything else." Thomas noted that, although Weiland was the director, "clearly Cosby, as star, producer and idea man, is the auteur here." Rita Kempley of The Washington Post stated: "Cosby looks woebegone all movie long. He knows he's out of his element, a comedian of words in a physical role.
Work progresses on the foundations of the first houses in the Medway Gate Housing Development. The former Edwardian Aveling & Porter building March 2010 The area of Strood around Knight's Place and Temple Street, was referred to as the Swamp. On the floods Smetham wrote in 1899 in that woebegone spot the foul contents of water closets were washed into poor peoples homes, and an indescribable filth permeated the fetid spot for months. In 1912 there was a typhoid outbreak here, 56 people contracted it, and five died.
The Minstrel tells us that in the original story, the princess arrived at the castle on a stormy night (Many Moons Ago - Reprise), but it is not night at all-and the princess only looked as though she went through a storm. Princess Winnifred the Woebegone, a brash and unrefined princess from the marshlands, was so eager to arrive that she swam the castle moat. She immediately charms Dauntless, Studley, and the knights and most of the kingdom ("Shy"). However, she also earns the utter loathing of the evil Queen, who vows to stop her.
In 1927, German composer Ernst Toch published an opera based on "The Princess and the Pea", with a libretto by Benno Elkan. Reportedly this opera was very popular in the American student repertoires; the music as well as the English translation (by Marion Farquhar) were praised in a review in Notes. The story was adapted to the musical stage in 1959 as Once Upon a Mattress, with comedian Carol Burnett playing the play's heroine, Princess Winnifred the Woebegone. The musical was revived in 1997 with Sarah Jessica Parker in the role.
In 2006, Pennsylvania lawyer Marc Bragg ("Marc Woebegone" in Second Life) brought a lawsuit against Second Life developer Linden Lab when Bragg's account was unilaterally disabled by Second Life administrators. Linden Lab claimed that Bragg had violated their terms of service by URL-hackingDennis G. Jerz, URL-Hacking: Do-it-yourself Navigation (May 18, 2000). the Second Life virtual land auction website in order to gain access to otherwise-unavailable auctions. As a result, Bragg was able to purchase virtual land within Second Life valued at $1,000 for approximately $300.
" CNN correspondent Sherri Sylvester said: "8-year-old Spencer Breslin knows how to deliver a line. Hard to believe that Disney's "The Kid" is his first feature film." Film critic Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times: "Though Rusty was supposed to be 10 in the original script, the filmmakers made him 8 so they could cast Spencer Breslin in the role, and it is not hard to see why.... Breslin is a charming presence, with a variety of woebegone looks and a gift for mimicking his older self.
From 1955 to 1959, Gosfield played Private Duane Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show (titled You'll Never Get Rich in its first season). Doberman was written as the most woebegone soldier. The actor originally hired for the part was Maurice Brenner, but Brenner was recast as Private Irving Fleischman. The show's creator Nat Hiken's biography details the casting for the role and the effect that Gosfield had on him, the producer and Phil Silvers when he appeared in front of them: In 1959, Gosfield was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for the show.
In addition to his fiction, Moody is a musician and composer. He belongs to a group called the Wingdale Community Singers, which he describes as performing "woebegone and slightly modernist folk music, of the very antique variety." Moody composed the song "Free What's-his-name," performed by Fly Ashtray on their 1997 EP Flummoxed, collaborated with One Ring Zero on the EP Rick Moody and One Ring Zero in 2004, and also contributed lyrics to One Ring Zero's albums As Smart As We Are, Memorandum, and Planets. In 2006, an essay by Moody was included in Sufjan Stevens's box-set Songs for Christmas.
Preparing for the role, Hathaway consumed fewer than 500 calories a day to lose , researched prostitution and cut her hair. To get into the character's mental space alone during filming in London, Hathaway sent her husband back to the US; this resulted in her becoming increasingly temperamental. Christopher Orr from The Atlantic wrote that "Hathaway gives it everything she has, beginning in quiet sorrow before building to a woebegone climax: she gasps, she weeps, she coughs." Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post wrote that "the centerpiece of a movie composed entirely of centerpieces belongs to Anne Hathaway, who as the tragic heroine Fantine sings another of the memorable numbers".
Jeter's woebegone look, extreme flexibility, and high energy led Tommy Tune to cast him in the off-Broadway play Cloud 9 in 1981. Much of his work specialized in playing eccentric, pretentious, or wimpy characters, as in The Fisher King, Waterworld, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Green Mile and Drop Zone. Occasionally, Jeter was able to stray away from these types of roles for more diverse characters like those he portrayed in Jurassic Park III, Air Bud, and Open Range. Jeter is perhaps most known for his role as convicted felon Eduard Delacroix in The Green Mile, a role for which he was nominated along with the rest of the cast for a Screen Actors Guild Award.
It's not all brooding bombast, though: the pastoral folk of The Golden Age, with its bleeping Moog melody, gives it a touch of Wicker Man weirdness, a gloriously avant garde moment that leaks into the haunting finale of the John Grant duet Mountaineers, which soars to anthemic levels of beauty. This kind of sadness can truly be a blessing." James Christopher Monger of AllMusic said the album "is rooted in empathy, and even at its most cynical – the woebegone "No One Believes in Love Anymore" comes to mind – the warmth of its core radiates outward." Jonathan Wright from God Is in the TV said "Sundfør has followed perfection with an equally brilliant album.
Following nationalisation of the railways the station was operated by British Railways Eastern Region. The nationalisation era started brightly for the station with a dedicated named service - the Easterling - commencing operation on 4 July 1950. The station was by this time looking quite woebegone so a modernisation programme to improve it was started in 1952. Work included replacing the entrance canopy, cutting back and re- roofing the train shed, installation of new platform canopies, a new refreshment room, and a new booking office. The station was closed for three weeks following the east coast floods of 31 January 1953 when the platforms and engine sheds were flooded to a depth of four feet .
The Saints' success did not carry over following Dempsey's miracle kick. A 21-10 loss the next week to the Miami Dolphins started a six-game losing streak which left the Saints with a 2-11-1 mark for the season. With the second pick in the 1971 NFL Draft, Roberts and Mecom selected Ole Miss quarterback Archie Manning, who became the cornerstone for the woebegone franchise for the next decade. In Manning's first NFL game, his two-yard touchdown run on the game's final play gave the Saints a 24-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, the same team which defeated the Saints in the franchise's first game in 1967.
By the 19th century the fabric of the building had become badly weathered, with Charles Hiatt writing that "the surface rot of the very perishable red sandstone, of which the cathedral was built, was positively unsightly" and that the "whole place previous to restoration struck one as woebegone and neglected; it perpetually seemed to hover on the verge of collapse, and yet was without a trace of the romance of the average ruin". Between 1818 and 1820 the architect Thomas Harrison restored the south transept, adding corner turrets. This part of the building served until 1881 as the parish church of St Oswald, and it was ecclesiastically separate. From 1844 R. C. Hussey carried out a limited restoration including work on the south side of the nave.
In July 2005 Nobacon played as part of a series of protest gigs against the G8 Summit that were arranged as an alternative to the official Live 8 concerts. In August 2007 he released an album, The Library Book of the World, on Chicago's Bloodshot Records label (with fellow punk-era stalwart Jon Langford's group The Pine Valley Cosmonauts as his backing band). After giving up on a book about current events, it was announced that Exterminating Angel Press would be releasing an "anarchist fairy tale" written by Nobacon and illustrated by filmmaker Alex Cox called Three Dead Princes. The release of Three Dead Princes coincided with the release of a new record entitled Woebegone in October 2010, during a U.S. tour.
At Garfield's suggestion that he "go and play with something poisonous", Odie runs into the nearby woods, passing a sign that reveals the woods to be Lake Woebegone, where the panther is lurking. The forest rangers are hunting for the panther, and attempt to warn Jon to evacuate, but after finding no one there, leave a note and move on. This proves unfortunate as a gust of wind kicks up after they leave, tossing the message into a recently extinguished campfire, where it burns up. Despite not hearing a man-eating beast growling in the night, Jon does find out that Garfield and Odie (to a lesser extent) have eaten all the food for the week, except for the dried fruit, and goes off on a tirade.
The motif of many of Ford's works, be it collaborative cd recordings or written poetry is that he resurrects iconic figures ranging from actresses Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire to legendary jazzmen such as Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus. His work conjures and preserves the ambience of woebegone days of Los Angeles, the neglected regions and landmarks from the Pacific Northwest to the shores of Lake Michigan, marking passages of time in America. Many of Ford's poetic narrations especially accompanied by former Doors drummer John Densmore would trace the roots of American music, mainly hardcore jazz. Ford’s 2014 release of spoken eleven poems album, Look Each Other in the Ears, is another collaborative project of infusing notable musicians such as from The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore and the late keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Ford’s poems also include accompaniment of choral singers and musicians Angelo Moore, Tommy Jordan from the band Geggy Tah.

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