Compare and contrast the generation on whose youthful talents United surfed to their present eminence, the one that produced Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Nicky Butt and the Neville brothers on the old training ground at the Cliff, and whose last remaining survivors made somewhat forlorn appearances at Wembley on Saturday.
The chance to ridicule our oldest foes is not being wasted and the Australian supporters I watched and spoke to while Alastair Cook's side thumped the Aussies at Lord's had a forlorn and slightly embarrassed appearance.
By the 1930s, the last thylacines were languishing in London and Hobart zoos, making their final public appearances in forlorn moving images.
Despite his bold statements, Mr. Estrada's appearance had a forlorn air.
Agudelo's showboating exuberance fell behind other more straightforward strikers in the pecking order and he was reduced to occasional appearances and some forlorn half-time ball-juggling in front of the New York fans.
His jowls are soft, his eyes are blue and framed by long lashes and large, rectangular glasses, and his sartorial choices — too short pants, cap-toed shoes with no socks, and always a bow tie fashioned from silk or velvet or a length of grosgrain ribbon — give him the appearance of a dreamy, somewhat forlorn French schoolboy.
Even the fans had a direct impact when, after cheering for forlorn benchwarmer Jared Dudley, they were finally rewarded with his late appearance.
Rafa Benitez's side have lost their last two fixtures, most recently with a humiliating 4-0 defeatoto Barcelona in El Clasico, Ronaldo cutting a forlorn figure in what many believe will be his last home appearance in the iconic fixture.
In death as in life, the people buried in City Cemetery were Newark's unknown and unclaimed, a forlorn caste of varied race, religion and ethnicity whose brief appearances in the urban swirl of the late 19th and early 20th centuries all ended in destitution.
Fishing piers sat forlorn.
