People who came here to the last Food Expo two years ago with a large group of colleagues wandered the halls on the opening day a little lonelier this time.
With Christmas fast approaching, it's not unusual to feel a little lonely at this time of year if you're single.
Growing up, the family spoke of this day rarely and their mother telling them that "people get lonely at this time of the year" was the only half-baked explanation they had for years.
"It is a real thing that people oftentimes feel lonelier during this time of year," Couto said, noting the increase in social pressure around the holiday time to be in a relationship (like when your grandparents ask you if have a girlfriend for the 50th time).
Even at this lonely time, Kidd was startled by the sound of cheers when he picked up a ball.
The lonely highway is back, but this time the voyagers are a high-school basketball team, accompanied by three cheerleaders and a few adult supervisors, returning from a state championship game.
McGovern's lonely invocation of Jefferson at this time -- "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" -- gives me the chills.
(And though I can't say for certain, I bet Lohan is often stranded on her own lonely island like this at this time of night, with all of her friends gone from her. Or why else did she wind up with me?).
"This is the lonely, awkward time for a camp director," Mr. Black says, as he awaits 18 busloads of campers from Philadelphia, Manhattan, New Jersey and beyond.
It's been a long time — a long, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time — since Led Zeppelin last appeared on American soil.
