The film's tale is made more poignant knowing the actors fell into their own star-crossed romance-both were married to other people-even as they portrayed forlorn lovers.
It was more like dusk than daylight, and wraiths and streamers of the fog rose dismally from puddles in the road, or clung like forlorn lovers to the anbaric cables overhead.
A forlorn lover might be unable to dissociate the moon from lost love; so the materialist is unable to dissociate the moon from the tide.
You might call it a meta-ballad - it's a song about songs about rain, sung by a forlorn lover who wonders why that's all he hears.
Somebody central to the romantic plot had to die, leaving a forlorn lover behind - that much came filtering through the haze of memory.
He caught her to his heart, and laid her cheek against his own, and now, no more repulsed, no more forlorn, she wept indeed, upon the breast of her dear lover.
It's a picture taken by Josef von Sternberg, her discoverer, her ecstatic but wretched director and her most forlorn lover.
How these series fit together with her earlier portrayals of starlets, forlorn lovers and fashion victims is a subject addressed by Rosalind Krauss, a usually reliable critic of contemporary art.
She had the soaring high notes when she needed them: Magda's famous Act I aria, when she sings of the laments of a forlorn young lover named Doretta.
Otherwise, he said in an interview, these cases will create a "judicial menage a trois," opening the courthouse "to any forlorn lover whose affair has come to an unexpected end."