Consequently, the spotlight is hogged by Alexander, who shimmies across the floor, droops like a lovelorn dandy and gazes soulfully at the front row, where Salome and her friends are gazing back.
A copy was secured in our village, no doubt by some lovelorn wife or spinster, and was loaned by the page because all were avid to read this tormenting love story and all identified with it.
Part of the reason for this is that lovelorn company bosses, intent on conquest, neglect the needs of their existing shareholders.
The development of specialist dating websites for groups as varied as wrinklies and clowns have also made it difficult for Cupid's main websites to make money.For all the firm's difficulties, there is no shortage of lovelorn singletons.
Henry Miller venerated its hero; F. Scott Fitzgerald borrowed its title for "The Great Gatsby" (and some critics think Fournier's main characters were models for Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald's narrator, and his lovelorn pal).
"He looks short and ugly like a pygmy but I guess he has money," complained one lovelorn man on a recent Kenyan show.
The young men spend their days in religious discussions, art therapy, sports, vocational training and psychological assessments.One of those who recently attended the course was 30-year-old Abdallah al-Sufyani, a lovelorn former university student from Taif.
FOR the lovelorn, the new year can be an unhappy time, as they cast envious glances in the direction of lovey-dovey couples at the season's parties.
"How I Live Now" is surely too nightmarish for young viewers, but its lovelorn adolescent protagonist will put off adults in the mood for a horror movie.
A decade ago a drunk and lovelorn prince wiped out most of the royal family, long a powerful political force, in an after-dinner massacre.
They are elected President of the United States and they attract most of the lovelorn rubbernecking at my neighbourhood coffeeshop.
