At the doors to great mausoleums, hooded virgins stare forlornly downwards, palms spread in mute, anguished supplication.

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The gondolas that would ferry visitors to the boats are tied forlornly to iron brackets on the embankment wall.

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At a time when other consultants are forlornly seeking a big idea to replace discredited old ones, this is striking in its ambition.

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Experienced campaigners like Kevin McBride, John Rankin and Merouane Zemmama were posted missing in midfield, while Colin Nish laboured forlornly in the lone striker's role.

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Two infants cried forlornly while the caregiver silently changed another's diaper.

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Those rejected candidates now stare forlornly from old campaign posters on the streets of Lille - but their ideas remain very much a part of French business culture.

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Murray was left bent over in either pain or frustration at one point, looking forlornly at his supporters' box, although he bravely recovered from 0-40 to stay alive in game seven.

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In Ireland, where venal politicians granted tax breaks to home builders, joblessness rests in the mid-teens and the landscape is littered forlornly with unoccupied, pretentious homes in decay with no takers.

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All the present hopes of peace fluttering, however forlornly, again this week (see article) rest on the assumption that the Palestinians will acquire a state of their own in the West Bank and Gaza.

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He soon made a name for himself with his powerful running, as well as his fiery temper, which once led his London Irish coach Toby Booth to say forlornly: "I've never known a back get so many yellow cards".

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