pine away

“I didn’t pine away. I’d learned pretty early what I could and couldn’t do.”

The country might heal more quickly if the left, the right and the media accepted the modern Republican Party for what it is, and if the GOP’s old flames would stop so pitiably pining away.

“When one of the birds dies, the local mythology is that the other bird pines away in grief,” said K. S. Gopi Sundar, a scientist at the Nature Conservation Foundation in India.

“I pine away for the guys that were on that team,” he said Tuesday.

It left the 66,839 at Hard Rock Stadium with little to do but pine away for the American Dream of appearing on the giant video board.