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After three seasons of almost nothing but dread and sorrow, the NBA’s most woebegone franchise, for generations, finally had a moment to celebrate.
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The Clippers rallied from a chaotic 6-21 start to finish 42-40 in this once-woebegone franchise's 15th consecutive winning season — the NBA's longest active streak.
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Before pushing the film into its final forlorn section, the excitement that something sexy might happen charges the actors.
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There is a profound helplessness to that forlorn glance that the main broadcast could never capture.
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In Dallas, bands struck up tunes to try to cheer the glum listeners on their way home.
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Coming to the glum realization that love isn’t outlasting infatuation is trickier to write about than a more incendiary subject like unfaithfulness, but Rodrigo pulls it off.
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By contrast, Emilia, in her mid-thirties, has a face that lights up with sunny enthusiasm and, just as quickly, turns downcast.
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Philadelphia 76ers star Tyrese Maxey was downcast after falling to the New York Knicks in Game 4 on Sunday night, leading to an early second-round playoff exit.
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Players were visibly disconsolate afterward, the sign of a team that expects to win every day.
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As the Champions League anthem echoed around Villa Park, Liverpool’s disconsolate players headed for the tunnel.
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The gloomy Jersey skies and rain didn’t deter fans — who were mostly in white English kits — from supporting The Three Lions in the match, one that felt like a game at Wembley Stadium considering the UK-like elements.
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The second reenactment takes place on the actual anniversary of Washington’s crossing — a freezing, snowy, gloomy Christmas Day in 1776.
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Fans hoping the Bears would move to Arlington Heights were crestfallen Monday after state lawmakers failed to act.
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Malek, with an insular and crestfallen moodiness, plays Jimmy as a man caught between liberation and AIDS, between wanting to be a breakout performer and waiting to stay true to his subversive drag soul.
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Brown and the Celtics have both since denied speculation that the 29-year-old second-team All-NBA selection was unhappy with his role in Boston.
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“Careworn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/careworn. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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