disconsolately

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The sculpture of an angel with his shoulders slumped and head hanging disconsolately is especially poignant because its creator, Roman Shustrov, himself died of the virus in May 2020.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Valadon’s son slumps over disconsolately; her elderly mother stares passively; her tall young lover earnestly occupies his corner; while Valadon herself looks out warily, her mind somewhere else.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

I stared disconsolately at three crumpled slips of loose-leaf paper.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2019

The telescoping nature of collapse — from the frailness of the physical body to the tragedy of the national soul — lends these pages a loss that is both painfully intimate and disconsolately vast.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2017

He wandered to the strange kitchen, thawed some iced huckleberries, ate them disconsolately.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury