woefulness

I gazed at her naked belly for a long while and, finally, with a kind of woefulness, bowed my head.

Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

Israel uses Intifada, Hamas, Qassam canister rockets, guns, and the act of youth throwing stones (vs. tanks, bombs, air power, and the threat of nukes) as a perennial caveat for the breakdown of talks: it is very savvy at keeping up a rhetorical façade of disconsolate woefulness and pathos for international benefit.

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Art of Talking Middle East Peace with a Forked Tongue 2010

Israel uses Intifada, Hamas, Qassam canister rockets, guns, and the act of youth throwing stones vs. tanks, bombs, air power, and the threat of nukes as a perennial caveat for the breakdown of talks: it is very savvy at keeping up a rhetorical façade of disconsolate woefulness and pathos for international benefit.

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Art of Talking Middle East Peace with a Forked Tongue Rizwan A. Rahmani 2010

Israel uses Intifada, Hamas, Qassam canister rockets, guns, and the act of youth throwing stones (vs. tanks, bombs, air power, and the threat of nukes) as a perennial caveat for the breakdown of talks: it is very savvy at keeping up a rhetorical façade of disconsolate woefulness and pathos for international benefit.

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Art of Talking Middle East Peace with a Forked Tongue 2010

Israel uses Intifada, Hamas, Qassam canister rockets, guns, and the act of youth throwing stones (vs. tanks, bombs, air power, and the threat of nukes) as a perennial caveat for the breakdown of talks: it is very savvy at keeping up a rhetorical façade of disconsolate woefulness and pathos for international benefit.

Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Art of Talking Middle East Peace with a Forked Tongue 2010

Being a stoic I can do no other but grin and bare the interim period and relish the seeing of the change appear along with the pain of those who are left to explain their woefulness. logdon

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Finally, Sutton pressed the woefulness down and went on.

The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

Finally, Sutton pressed the woefulness down and went on.

The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

Finally, Sutton pressed the woefulness down and went on.

The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004

Or is it the lamenting Elegiac, which in a kind heart would move rather pity than blame, who bewails with the great philosopher Heraclitus the weakness of mankind, and the wretchedness of the world: who surely is to be praised, either for compassionate accompanying just causes of lamentation, or for rightly painting out how weak be the passions of woefulness.

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