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The beach of Caniçal now looks rather forlorn, with rotting hulks and flotsam and jetsam testifying to better days.
That, as we all know, is a forlorn hope (to abuse a Dutch cliché): those who “know” that when two or more people or things are the subject of a verb you have to use were , not was , regardless of the context, are like those who “know” (like the people at Elizabeth Arden) that millennium is spelled with one n, who “know” that it is Parmagiana , not Parmigiana (like the people at Burger King), and who have no doubt that baking soda, baking powder, washing soda, and ice-cream soda are all the same thing.
A commentary in the London Independent about Britain's fuddy-duddy Conservative Party and its forlorn attempts at image enhancement observed, "Here they are, doing their best to be a little bit groovy , a little bit New Labour, and what do we do?
In the southern part of Rome stands the rather forlorn EUR complex of obsolescent modern buildings.
The north tower soars 100 m (some 330 ft) above the street, but work on the other, a forlorn stump of stone, stopped in 1783 because of a lack of money.