disconsolate

• “He would have gone moping about for years in disconsolate solitude, silent and sullen as a ghost, or would have rent the air with unavailing shrieks and lamentations.”

  Review

• “I knew I'd find you here," called a disconsolate voice, and Emma Dean appeared from behind a huge flowering bush.”

  Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College

• “Little wonder that the kind Duchess looked "disconsolate" in the middle of her content!”

  Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1

• “It seems to me you look kind of disconsolate this morning. ”

  Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z

• “By the time of the next pep rally, everyone's at each others throats and a disconsolate Coach Taylor can barely bring himself to utter the word "victory.”

  Matt's TV Week in Review

• “He arrived brimming with enthusiasm that was lost on his disconsolate squad.”

  Simon & Schuster: Parents Behaving Badly

• “Minor, a CNN Hero, tells the story of a woman who became disconsolate, barely able to get out of bed to care for her three kids and a newborn after her husband died in a fire.”

  The Huffington Post: Vicki Minor Of Wildland Firefighter Foundation Helps Families Denied Benefits

• “Meanwhile, at Westminster Tube station, disconsolate penguins swathed in scarves waited in vain for a train to Stanmore.”

  House Points: Government capital spending and Parliamentary standards

• “I wandered around disconsolate, listless, and squinting.”

  The Washington Post: Is Justin Bieber the new Beatles? Never say never!

• “This remarkable venture combines memorable themes with striking ensemble-writing, dramatic brass and percussion sounds and a faintly disconsolate beauty, writes John Fordham”

  The Guardian: Readers recommend: songs about showing off

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