We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome.
These new songs, richer and less lonesome than his previous work, suggest it will be a rousing set.
I saw a piece of myself in nearly all of them, and each time I did I felt angrier and sadder, if a little less lonesome.
The possibility that work could be a redemptive force — a thing that not only dilutes certain agonies but also demands a less solipsistic (and less lonesome) vision of the world than addiction typically allows for — was progressive.
Country music's greatest yodeller, Rogers recorded no less than 11 lonesome Blue Yodel songs before dying of TB in 1933.
Queensland's conservatives are different: in a state where capital always came from elsewhere, where Brisbane was a "branch office town" and where the legal and medical establishments were left to fly the "small l" liberal flag more or less on their lonesome, the state had never been fertile soil for social liberalism.
The simple narrative trajectory of "Lonesome" — which covers less than 24 hours in a running time of less than 70 minutes — lets Fejos move through an astonishing range of moods and styles, just where the more complex story lines of "The Last Performance" and "Broadway" seem to hem him in.
Ms. Allison has high-minded aspirations as a writer, but the stage adaptation has less in common with literary sagas like Larry McMurtry's "Terms of Endearment" or "Lonesome Dove" than it does with pop fiction by the likes of Rebecca Wells, Terry McMillan and Wally Lamb.
Its showy list of collaborators includes Dexter Dalwood, Sir Peter Blake, Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller, Fiona Banner, Adam Dant and Cornelia Parker as well as the less obviously arty Dead Victorians, Visitors From Another Dimension, Madame de La Cartomancer, Lonesome Cowboys From Hell, and the Snake Lady.
Tommy Lee Jones, in conversation with Lillian Ross and Susan Morrison at the Directors Guild of America this morning, proved to be less chilly in person than Woodrow Call, his famous cow-boss part in the classic television Western "Lonesome Dove," but not by a country mile.
By Roger Angell October 5, 2008 Tommy Lee Jones, in conversation with Lillian Ross and Susan Morrison at the Directors Guild of America this morning, proved to be less chilly in person than Woodrow Call, his famous cow-boss part in the classic television Western "Lonesome Dove," but not by a country mile.
