Literary notes about Forlornly (AI summary)
The term "forlornly" is often used in literature to intensify the mood by highlighting a sense of desolation, melancholy, or aimless abandonment. It not only describes the physical posture or facial expressions of characters—such as standing, gazing, or laughing in a way that conveys inner despair [1, 2, 3]—but also colors the atmosphere of settings, from creaking houses to weather-beaten landscapes, imbuing them with an air of isolation and neglect [4, 5, 6]. Moreover, its placement in sentences often transforms a simple action into one laden with emotional weight, suggesting both psychological and sometimes even physical despondency in the narrative [7, 8, 9].
- He was clothed in a thin armour of ice from head to foot and it trickled from him in little showers as he stood forlornly before us.
— from RecollectionsWith Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number ofOriginal Letters, of which one by George Meredith andanother by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced infacsimile by David Christie Murray - "I haven't got any," said Meg forlornly.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott - “Oh, no, it takes me to make such a mistake,” said Anne forlornly.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - Against the twilight rises the trapezoidal top of the stack, which has stood forlornly here through the washing and bleaching of the wintry weather.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy - Here we saw the masts of H.M.S. Pegasus sticking up forlornly out of the water half-a-mile on our port bow.
— from From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log by Wolston B. C. W. (Wolston Beaumont Charles Weld) Forester - He slunk forlornly through the deserted camp, smelling the rubbish-heaps and the discarded rags and tags of the gods.
— from White Fang by Jack London - She could not roam about and amuse herself, for the burned breadth would show, so she stared at people rather forlornly till the dancing began.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - In the meantime the boys were gazing very forlornly at Wendy, now equipped with John and Michael for the journey.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie - He seemed frozen into a statue of despair, sitting with his head bowed forlornly, and his vacant eyes on the floor.
— from Little Golden's Daughter; or, The Dream of a Life Time by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.