He stopped, a lonely figure on a field of snow, and looked back.
She was, of course, a lonely figure in an empty ballroom.
He did so, a rather lonely figure in the empty courtyard.
Then he noticed the small, lonely figure in the crowd around the capsule.
She set out with Timothy, a lonely little figure going down the garden path.
All except for one lonely figure who knew he should mingle-but couldn't quite bring himself to do so.
One lonely figure stepped forward to shake the victor's hand.
Often a lonely figure, Roberts now has the box office to herself; no other female star comes close.
"To most people, he was the lonely figure with the flashlight, walking his dog at night."
Such a lonely figure is always pathetic because whatever he wants proves impossible to have.