But they have been losers in every other sense -- lonely, juvenile, ridiculed, often outcasts of one kind or another.
But it's enough for us to glimpse, or sense, the lonely pathos of injured spirits.
Whenever Ms. Maxwell and Mr. Hirsch are alone onstage together, you began to feel inklings of complexity in their characters, a sense of lonely people forced by circumstance to detach themselves from their core identities and deepest feelings.
Between the relentless crowing about how "brilliantly" he performs at this reading and what a "sales smasheroo" that book is, you sense a lonely and baffled man, repeatedly floored by anxiety, hypochondria and a still-raw response to a long-ago violent loss – none of which are likely to be solved simply by demanding that women line up to love him.
In this way, Cudi's closing of the festival made sense; the lonely stoner persona that helped him break out, in 2009, has indirectly created a market for most of the anti-gangster rap featured at the fest, and the emo bread crumbs that he left with songs like "Pursuit of Happiness" and "Soundtrack to My Life" are still being followed by acts like Logic, Childish Gambino, and Chance the Rapper.
A sense of lonely rage, after being mistreated by a big company, is a feeling many can relate to.
In the end one has little sense of the lonely and vulnerable woman Alexandra really is.
Without turning the novel into a polemic, Govier persuasively conveys Audubon's lonely sense that such pronouncements will be dismissed as alarmist and even offensive.
Hidden drugs stashes, or money, evidence of occult ceremonies … of course, there was never any of that, just a lonely sense of emptiness and neglect.
Like the Tom Perrotta novel it was based on, Payne's film offered unexpected moments of sympathy for Witherspoon's fastidious striver — a sense of how lonely her perfectionism leaves her.
