forsakenness

The forsakenness inherent in the absurd jacket and blond stubble struggling to cover his chin and bubbly cheeks were contradicted by the neatness of his over-combed mop of hair and lucid dedication to the art of enunciation.

Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection 2009

The forsakenness inherent in the absurd jacket and blond stubble struggling to cover his chin and bubbly cheeks were contradicted by the neatness of his over-combed mop of hair and lucid dedication to the art of enunciation.

Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection Marcus Walton 2009

He stoops down: he himself comes down as a child to the lowly stable, the symbol of all humanity's neediness and forsakenness.

Pope's Christmas Eve Homily papabear 2008

He stoops down: he himself comes down as a child to the lowly stable, the symbol of all humanity's neediness and forsakenness.

Archive 2008-12-21 papabear 2008

With that thought, and before she had time to remember any reasons why it could not be true, came a new sense of forsakenness and disappointment.

Adam Bede 2004

Finally, it seemed as if all her state was one of loneliness and forsakenness, and she could scarce refrain from trembling at the lip.

Sister Carrie 2004

As a matter of fact, however, what he complained of most was his spiritual condition — that indescribable forsakenness — to which he gives such heartrending expression in “Zarathustra”.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

One thing is forsakenness, another matter is lonesomeness: THAT hast thou now learned!

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

But when her eyes looked round to find the barren rocks, the utter forsakenness, the coming of an unnameable horror, before her she saw only fair groves with trees bedecked with fruit and blossom, fragrant meadows, flowers whose beauty made her eyes grow glad.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Spiders were here in great number, and their cobwebs, stretched in all directions and wreathing the great skinny dead together, were a pleasant spectacle, since they inspired with life and wholesome cheer a scene which would otherwise have brought to the mind only a sense of forsakenness and desolation.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922