the lovelorn
noun
: people who are unhappy because of love
Her newspaper column offers advice for the lovelorn.
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Laurent purposefully wanted to take Bravo out of his zeitgeist spotlight as the lovelorn Gabriel from Emily in Paris.
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
The first film dabbled in romance — who could forget the lovelorn Dottie (Elizabeth Daily)?
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Here, the lovelorn popetón tracks and ballads that made Ocean one of his country’s most prominent musicians are sung here to Venezuela itself.
—E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
Actor and executive producer Matt Bomer has earned his second Emmy nomination, this time for his role as the lovelorn State Department official Hawk Fuller on Showtime’s Fellow Travelers.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 July 2024
The archetypal Romantic hero is a brilliant outsider (like Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein) who is prone (like the lovelorn title character of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther) to lonely introspection.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 1 July 2024
In one early scene, as the lovelorn Om Kapoor, Khan wears a flashy golden necklace, its bulky pendant etched against the triangle of skin exposed by a casually unbuttoned shirt.
—Mallika Rao, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
One night, Porter exited her residence to find the lovelorn McCullers lying prone on the doorstep.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
And a relationship with God, Dolan argued, can nourish the hearts of the lovelorn.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024
The first film dabbled in romance — who could forget the lovelorn Dottie (Elizabeth Daily)?
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Here, the lovelorn popetón tracks and ballads that made Ocean one of his country’s most prominent musicians are sung here to Venezuela itself.
—E.r. Pulgar, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2024
Actor and executive producer Matt Bomer has earned his second Emmy nomination, this time for his role as the lovelorn State Department official Hawk Fuller on Showtime’s Fellow Travelers.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 July 2024
The archetypal Romantic hero is a brilliant outsider (like Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein) who is prone (like the lovelorn title character of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther) to lonely introspection.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 1 July 2024
In one early scene, as the lovelorn Om Kapoor, Khan wears a flashy golden necklace, its bulky pendant etched against the triangle of skin exposed by a casually unbuttoned shirt.
—Mallika Rao, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
One night, Porter exited her residence to find the lovelorn McCullers lying prone on the doorstep.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
And a relationship with God, Dolan argued, can nourish the hearts of the lovelorn.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
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