| Increasingly, however, he was becoming listless and withdrawn, refusing invitations to play and grooming himself disconsolately. |
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| I noticed this last week when I was lying around disconsolately feeling ill. |
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| As I stood there staring disconsolately, unbelievingly, into the pot, what I saw there was not cooking water but a kind of elemental cream of asparagus soup. |
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| A group of young men from the city's environmental protection department stood around disconsolately, debating whether to go and have a drink instead. |
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| On the harbour-front, fishermen sit disconsolately before nets that are black with grease. |
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| Along the streets a few scruffy, amateurish posters flap disconsolately in the wind. |
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| After American intervention on his behalf, Mr Arafat and his troupe were allowed to trail out of Lebanon to seek refuge in Tunisia, where they sat disconsolately. |
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| Disgruntled gardeners moved disconsolately amid the trees fixing little butter lamps to certain of the lower branches, and then with flint and steel sparks ignited the tinder. |
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| The Great Lord Rampa wandered disconsolately about, chewing on his knuckles with an agony of anguished frustration and at the same time trying to smile amiably at those people whom he felt he should beam upon. |
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| Wandering off disconsolately to find the right one, I sampled as many expensive face creams as I could en route to try and smooth out the lines that the journey was inducing. |
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| He is a starchy, somewhat aloof figure, ridiculed in his previous campaign for strolling disconsolately through empty supermarket aisles looking for hands to shake. |
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| Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet. |
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