Sentence examples for from lonesome from inspiring English sources

They expected requests for petty favors from lonesome prisoners in solitary, requests that would give them control and leverage.

DALLAS Search Party The theme of the 1956 John Ford movie "The Searchers" is timeless, and a staple of westerns from "Lonesome Dove" to "Django Unchained".

Though I freely admit that my knowledge of cowboys comes mainly from "Lonesome Dove," "Red River," and, more recently, "Brokeback Mountain," my skepticism about the overlap between the professions of writer and cowboy persisted.

(George W. Bush's painting hobby is too poignantly personal to qualify, having advanced from lonesome self-portraits in a bathroom to winsome dogs to pictures, possibly a bit remorseful, of wounded soldiers).

The true hoops of the city beckon from housing-project walls and glass-flecked lots, where urgent snow shoveling has scarred the ground but cleared the way for another game; from lonesome urban trees and the asphalt beaches by the sea, where a jump shot's arc must be calibrated to the ocean's steady breeze.

A recent success is AMC's Broken Trail, an entertaining four-hour cattle-drive movie, starring Robert Duvall (a solid backer of the classical western from Lonesome Dove through to Open Range) and Thomas Haden Church (now cowpoke-lean having shed the weight he gained for Sideways).

He gets phone calls from the lonesome highway, from the gentle Southern breezes, and from his Smoky Mt. memories.

We like them best when they are seen from a lonesome distance: from the Great Lawn, or the Long Island Expressway.

I was saved from this lonesome fate by two Finnish friends, Martti-Tapio Kuuskoski and Laura Lindstedt.

How Biden went from the lonesome dove in the Administration to the new starting point for consensus.

Perhaps, rather controversially, his passage was not barred and he heckled and heckled, which is standard to be honest, from a lonesome position at the back.