Sentence examples for lonely about the from inspiring English sources

In Alex Garland's novel THE BEACH,a character utters the immortal line "One of these days I'm going to find one of these Lonely Planet writers, and I'm going to ask them, what's so fucking lonely about the Khao Sanh Road?" (An infamous hyper-Westernized backpacker nexus / party zone in Bangkok).

There is something achingly, primordially lonely about that sound.

Here's the start of The Lonely, about a man imprisoned on a desert planet: "Witness if you will a dungeon, made out of mountains, salt flats and sand".

Yesterday's awards ceremony also saw Lucy Dillon win the Romantic Novel of the Year award for Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts, about the romantic consequences which ensue when stray dogs are matched with new owners.

There is some soul-searching, too, with Elvis's lonely monologue about the death of his infant twin contrasting with Nixon's whining about his own hardscrabble roots, leading the president to conclude that "you and me – we rose from nothing".

It's likely that in such a world, confusing and lonely questions about the meaning of love and intimacy began to accompany Giles as he journeyed into adulthood.

Zezima, straight out of animation school, previously wowed us with Cruising, a lonely short about the deadly banality of family cruises.

What else do we feel lonely about?' While this was how he felt now, when reflecting upon the skip generation arrangement he admitted that it was a very difficult time: 'after my elder son and his wife both went, their four kids were all left to us.

It doesn't matter whether I feel lonely about it or not".

But I couldn't deny there was something lonely about our small celebrations.

Still, there was something sad and lonely about him as he spoke at City Hall.