| A novel telling of the lifelong sense of desolation, forlornness and longing for an absent mother. |
| They loved to be near one another that their forlornness might pain them less. |
| The general forlornness supports the mood of Hamdan's prison letters to his family, which sound anguished, pious, and unthreatening. |
| How unspeakable, then, it struck her, that worldly arrangements should contribute to the forlornness of one's natural state! |
| The old sense of forlornness, of being alone and uncared for, returned to her. |
| The smile she'd had on her face slowly dissipated as a feeling of forlornness washed over her. |
