Murray, the man: That curious, woebegone, goofy face – simultaneously knowing and boyish – is, as Griffiths says, "an interesting surface for the work in and of itself".
At other majors in other years, Mickelson always had the face of a golfer who seemed to know that, sooner or later, a disaster would happen as he plodded around with a woebegone look and a shy, silly smile.
No wonder guests who began their week with the touching eagerness of preschoolers at the finger-painting table acquire a woebegone, dyspeptic look by the last morning.
Alex had a woebegone, hangdog expression.
"It's real life," Brand said of leaving the Clippers, where he was the workmanlike face of a woebegone franchise.
On the beach below, king penguin chicks, almost reaching the three-foot height of adults but covered with long, fluffy brown feathers, stand uncertainly facing the sea or woebegone in the shallows.
And Ms. Wareing, who appeared in Mr. Loach's "It's a Free World," keeps her woebegone character just this side of caricature.
By holding steady in the face of a steep decline at ABC, CBS has bounced that woebegone network into third and kept almost within a point (9.8 to 10.9) of market leader NBC.
In football terms, Griffin — better known as RGIII — faces as daunting a task in resurrecting the fortunes of the woebegone Redskins as the President does in reviving the U.S economy.
